Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propaganda leaflet." Of Malik's resolution on Greece, Jebb said: "For the representative of a country which maintains millions of its own compatriots in slave labor camps ... to denounce other governments for alleged misdemeanors as regards political prisoners is just about as nauseating a spectacle as that of Satan rebuking...
...English congregational hymns was Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Author of Our* God, our help in ages past, often voted the greatest English hymn of all, Watts was also a writer of hymns for children, authored the well-known query, "How doth the little busy bee . . ." and the warning that "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." But his touch for juvenile hymns is not always suited to modern taste. For example...
...printed . . . Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you are half dead, or half asleep, but lift up your voice with strength. Be no more afraid of your voice now, nor ashamed of its being heard, than when you sing the songs of Satan. Sing modestly. Do not bawl . . . Strive to unite your voices together so as to make one clear melodious sound. Sing in time. Do not run before or stay behind...
...will see the end of this world, it is clear to Witnesses that it is likely to happen any day now. Obviously then, the most important thing that a man can do is scramble onto the right side of the fence before Armageddon-the last and decisive battle between Satan and Jehovah...
Witnesses are most in their element when they are challenging the kingdom of Satan-that is, the rest of the world. They refuse to salute flags or to involve themselves in politics. Most of them refuse to serve in the armed forces (on the grounds that they are ministers). Such behavior keeps them constantly in hot water. Last year two of them were executed in rightist Greece; last month the sect was banned as subversive in Communist Poland (TIME, July 17). Their history in the U.S. has been punctuated by Supreme Court decisions, injunctions, jail terms and mob violence...