Word: redeemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian content of this culture includes war and politics. During history, "the Church condoned, tried to redeem, but had on the whole little effect" on the lovers of war, Toynbee elaborated...
...Creator and in goodness and love to all that demands love and kindness. [But] in principle we must say that the Christian order of redemption was realized by God for this world . . . Only we, who are descended from Adam, are born in original sin, and God became man to redeem us ... His church and His sacraments are [not] valid for . . . other planets...
...reaches a telling climax as the spokes fall out of the German war machine. Fuzzy-cheeked youngsters try to hold positions that crack divisions could not defend, commanders cannot reach the Führer because he is dillydallying at his own birthday party. But these vivid vignettes cannot quite redeem the novel's major flaw-that its men whine louder than its bullets...
...Michael Lay's music. Ziegler starts each song with real promise: the words are crisp and the rhymes ingenious; then, just where he needs a punch line on each verse, he rests on his creative oars. The result is insipid lyrics, more annoying because they could shine through to redeem the book...
Then, on Sept. 3, the Reds opened up and sent the first of 10,000 shells screaming over. This was the time, if ever, to "take the wraps" off the Nationalists and redeem the pledge given by Washington in early 1953. For 48 hours frantic messages flew between Taipei and Washington, and then it came : permission for the Nationalist air force to hit the attacking artillery and Communist shipping which might be massing to invade. The small Nationalist navy received similar orders...