Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strength through Joy. In Stockholm, Sweden, prison authorities out to prove the curse of drink staged a football match between the jail's chronic drunkards and its other convicts: the drunkards...
...bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues. Always it is the law of numbers, of strength, that determines the issue...
Within the grey walls of the Palace, where men tried to make peace in times of desperate scarcity, the warlike laws of strength and numbers were in command...
This "peaceful" position won the Communists considerable support among a people heartily sick of war. On the other hand, the Communists had lost some strength in liberal and intellectual groups which formerly made a sharp distinction between Chinese Reds and Russian Reds. In bone-poor Yenan the Communist record had been one of progressive reform. But from Shantung and other recently occupied areas, Chinese liberals heard and many believed verifiable tales that were remarkably like the stories of Red oppression in eastern Europe. But this loss of prestige among intellectuals was much less important to the Communists than retention...
...Last month Pope Pius urged Christian principles upon the peacemakers Last week Protestant leaders of eight nations, in London for a four-day meeting of the World Council of Churches, reiterated the word from Rome, called for a joining of Protestant and Catholic hands to let statesmen know the strength and power of the Christian faith...