Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberation of God, the repersonalization of man, the judgment of a proud society and the quiet but more effective religious impulse unmoved by obsessive revivalizing. Such movement is likely to occur in the only way it ever has, within a creative minority and through-in the Biblical sense-the Remnant...
...first bases to be hit would signal the alarm. The U.S. would certainly be able to devastate the vitals of the Soviet Union with no more than 50 bombers. "Wars," as the U.S. Sixth Fleet's Vice Admiral Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown has said, "are won by remnant forces...
...clings tenaciously, even though much of the land is still poor and only 50,000 Frenchmen live there. Not for years will the $550 million poured in since 1948 begin to pay off-but there are riches to be found, and France seems determined not to let this vast remnant of its empire go by default, or to make the same mistakes that led to Algeria...
...preposterous oriental olio called Mr. Wu that he left unfinished when he died in 1932. Most of his concoctions were unqualified flops, partly because Composer d'Albert had difficulty deciding whose horn he was tooting-Puccini's or Richard Strauss's. The only currently heard remnant of his life's work is Tiefland (1903). Often played in Germany and occasionally produced in the U.S., it has now been painstakingly embalmed by Epic...
...conquered him, but whatever youth he had once possessed had long since faded from his face and only a remnant of fire burned behind his tired and blurry eyes. Not even his faith in radicalism, a movement to which he had devoted the greater part of his life, had been able to hold back the wrinkled and weather-beaten appearance he presented. Leaning back in his chair, he re-lit his pipe, and assumed a reflective fixity in his rendezvous with the past...