Word: smite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This line finally got to be too much for earnest, beetle-eyed Louis Fischer, once violently pro-Russian. Last week, after 22 years on the Nation staff and 12 years (1924-36) as its ecstatic Moscow correspondent, Fischer quit. Said he: "There were years when you rose up to smite any power that wronged the weak, when your words rang out against . . . the suppression of small, weak states by mighty neighbors. . . . The Nation now has a 'line' and omits whatever does not fit the 'line...
...else to fling such texts at the British people and expect them to be followed literally as guides to conduct after five years of bloody war against a Satanic foe. And which texts are we to follow? What about Matthew 5:39-'Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also'? Should we never have gone...
Final Warning No. -. The Allies had not yet given the word to the conquered to rise up and smite their oppressor: that word probably would not come until Allied troops crossed the Channel. But Russia, ready to start a new drive which presumably will be geared with the invasion, joined the U.S. and Britain in one more stern warning to Germany's collaborators. Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland were told to pull out immediately, or share in the full disaster of Axis defeat...
...this tribute to the House's most unashamed demagogue? One reason: the House admires oratory, however bad. Another: the House, enraged by Franklin Roosevelt's taunts (TIME, Feb. 7), had its mind made up to smite the President. Only the day before it had refused to stand up and be counted on the soldiers' vote bill. Now, as Republican Leader Joe Martin saw that he had the votes, a roll call was ordered, and the House howled down the Administration-backed Worley bill, 224-to-168. Then it passed the Eastland-Rankin state-ballot measure...
...dingdong struggle over the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of New York. James Aloysius Farley had kept his man Bennett quiet and withdrawn from the battlefield. This stratagem had two advantages: 1) it kept Silent John from making any mistakes; 2) it left Big Jim free to smite hip & thigh the candidacy of Senator James M. Mead, the man of Franklin Roosevelt...