Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Affairs Committee several arguments have been raised against this aid. First of all there is the question of cost to this country, which is already committed to the European Recovery Plan, and to arms aid to Atlantic Pact countries, not to speak of heavy military expenditures at home. Although the Administration expects private capital to provide most of the funds in future years, it admits that the government must do the initial financing, and continue to give some help thereafter for as long as the program is necessary...
...boat in an attempt to sell us fruit of round cheeses which you ate by carving out from the inside like a jack's lantern. When we washed our dishes in the canals watered with Rhine sewage bright-eyed kiddies and incredulous adults gathered. Little boys who could speak English always appeared at crucial moments to direct us to grocery stores or lead us to inns where we could buy an eel dinner...
Remarkably many of the people did speak English. Unfortunately grocery stores were the only places where no one could understand us. Generally comprehension increased if you asked for "viskey" instead of "whiskey," but shopping remained a difficulty. We once solved the problem by inducing a black marketer who wanted to change a few guilders to help us buy the routine quota of Maggi soup, meat, and bisquets before entering monetary negotiations...
...voice on the other end was suave: "Even if one accepts, tacitly, you understand, a certain measure of responsibility. it remains impermissible to speak of French fleas...
...according to Barth, "is He who according to Holy Scripture exists, lives, acts, makes Himself known to us in the work of His free love ..." But it is dangerous to think of God as nothing but unlimited power. "Perhaps you recall how, when Hitler used to speak about God, he called Him 'the Almighty.' . . . Holy Scripture never speaks of God's power, its manifestations and its victories, in separation from the concept of law." This law is to be found in God as Father-"the God who is in Himself love...