Word: redeemability
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...that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...
This is the last squash match this term. On February 8 the squad will have a return match with the Union Boat Club, and McKittrick will have a chance to redeem his only loss of the year. The team will then resume intercollegiate play with a match against Army...
...often seemed jerrybuilt. Wall Street (socalled because of the log wall that peg-legged Peter Stuyvesant had built) was a natural site for trading: near the docks at its foot, there had long been a slave market. There, in 1790, when the first U.S. Congress voted "public stock" to redeem the Continental scrip which had financed the Revolution, a lively trade in the U.S. "stock" sprang...
...redeem the pledges, Earl proposed: 1) a nickel-a-bottle beer tax (highest in the U.S.); 2) a gasoline tax boost from 7? to 9? a gallon (highest in the U.S.); 3) a 100% boost in the state sales tax (from 1? to 2? ); 4) a $100 tax on slot machines (although they are illegal); 5) increased levies on natural gas and crude oil. Estimated yearly haul...
Bennett rates Communism's "idolatry" as a greater fault than its theoretical Marxist atheism. The Communist regards his particular movement as being able to redeem the world. This passionate "belief, says Bennett, "develops a form of complete human self-sufficiency that is incompatible with the Christian understanding of man's dependence upon God. It precludes any transcendent judgment upon the Communist society. It creates a false optimism and fails to prepare the people in a Communist society for the continuing sin that goes with new forms of power...