Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany and Austria, and the overseas territories, including war-torn Indo-China. Stern, tireless General de Lattre de Tassigny had struggled hard to reorganize the French army and instill into it a new self-respect. The fact remained that at home it still trained with wooden guns and that even with overseas forces it could put in the field only five to nine ill-equipped combat divisions. France had about 1,000 planes, all of them worthless for combat service...
...maintenance of a hands-off, let's-look-at-anything policy in the University is a cause for minor self-congratulation--at least compared with the blasts from outside. But when the City of Cambridge denies Harold Laski the use of a hall because Mayour Neville considers him "pro-Communist, anti-Catholic, and anti-religious," it is a sign that all is not so health elsewhere...
Four Things. ". . . Now the challenge has come. The churches, with a poorly equipped ministry which has more worldly wisdom than true self-knowledge and spirituality, are simply unprepared to meet the situation. Dangers and unprecedented opportunities to demonstrate the power of the Gospel, both stare in the face of the churches...
...Self-conscious because of his youth and size, Winston hired a distinguished-looking man of 70 to go around with him as a front for his deals. Before he was 34 he had bought & sold such famous collections as Empire-Builder Collis P. Huntington's and Mining Tycoon E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin's. He also learned that gem buying could be tricky. Once he bought $90,000 worth which he later found had been taken from Socialite Mrs. Isaac Emerson, wife of the Bromo-Seltzer king. Winston had to return...
When Empson read it aloud, his Bacchus swept his hearers away with its sonority and music, having an effect that Poet John Crowe Ransom likened to "the blazing beauty of fireworks." But what most impressed them was the detachment with which this prodigious man regarded a notoriously threatened and self-conscious world. The last poem in his new book was a meditation on world culture...