Word: smiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vistula Rivers in the north and the Industrial Triangle (Cracow to Lublin to Lwow) in the south, was the strategy approved for Marshal Smigly-Rydz by his Allied military advisers (see map, p. 16). He need endanger only 15 Polish divisions by this plan, holding 45 in reserve to smite the Germans after their supply lines and communications were extended. His own defense line would be less than 500 miles long instead of more than 1,000 miles. Even the Germans estimated it would take them one month to crush Poland in such a campaign...
...politicos had the University pay them $14,196 for the full 1936 taxes on the hotel, despite the fact that the University bought the hotel in December, only owed 27 days' taxes, not 365. The New Deal's rufous Galahad, Attorney General Frank Murphy, swore to smite Louisiana sin hip-&-thigh regardless of the prominence of anyone found involved. "This thing has just begun," said his agents in New Orleans...
Like Biblical Gideon, who required three signs from the Lord before he went forth to smite the Midianites, University of Chicago's Professor Harry David Gideonse*is a skeptic and a warrior. Gideonse battles, however, not for the Lord but for the Scientific Method. This made him a natural opponent of his chief, Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who believes that there is a hierarchy of truths which transcends laboratory evidence...
...Thompson making his banked turn over the Bay; the microphone falling off its hook unnoticed; Pilot Thompson pulling back on his stick to bring the ship's nose up after the turn; the stick jamming, Pilot Thompson straining horrified against it as the ship roared on down to smite the water...
...Matthew: But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also...