Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand years ago, when Western civilization was bounded by the laws and legions of the Roman Empire, the proudest words a man could utter were: "I am a citizen of Rome." A century ago, when the world was girdled by the British Empire, the Englishman's voice sounded from the earth's far corners: "I am a British subject." Now, in the middle of the 20th Century, the most arresting tones of history said something else: "I am an American...
...Power. As it had once looked to London and to Rome, the world now looked to the U.S. for hope and leadership. It was an open secret in the rest of the world that 20th Century civilization would be guided in large part by the heart, the wisdom and the power of the U.S. The secret was spread in every foreign newspaper, before every meeting of foreign ministers, repeated sometimes with hope and gratitude, sometimes with sneers and hatred...
...earliest aspirations toward European unity were mostly military. Rome unified those parts of Europe that it cared to lay hands on; but Europe as an entity did not exist. Charlemagne, a brief beacon in the Dark Ages, headed a "Roman Empire"-with the blessing of a new force for unity, the universal Church. Since then, most of the would-be unifiers have been secular-Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler...
...Waterloo. At first the Communists seemed stunned by their defeat. The victors gleefully taunted them with banners: "Togliatti-do you understand? Go back to Russia!" Rome chuckled over the story of the two Communist election judges at Ischia: when the returns were counted, only one Communist vote had been cast. Each judge called the other a traitor; both wound up in the hospital...
...Newman's attitude toward Rome gradually changed. In studying early Christian history, he began to suspect that his beloved Church of England was in schism. For six agonizing years Newman tortured himself with questioning and doubt. Many of his friends deserted him. .In 1842 he left Oxford to retire to a life of monastic asceticism with a few young followers...