Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Catholic Church, and many Catholic clerics, according to Mr. Blanshard's own sources, agree neither with the temper of the thought, or the dogmatic authentication of the sources from which it is derived. Some clerics do agree, and the cases of Quebee and Spain certainly provide strong arguments for the possibility of compromise between Catholicism and fascism. But the blanket implications which Mr. Blanshard draws are politically naive. The social facts in Spain and the United States are only slightly comparable. His simple use of the Papist bug-a-boo as the enduring prime mover of unsavory isms...
...opening worship service they heard Dr. Warner Cole of Detroit deliver the annual sermon on "Conquest Through Conflict," in which he named three "foes, strong, deeply entrenched, that array themselves against the church of the 20th Century." First, he cited "the enemy of humanistic materialism"; second, the "dread menace of Communism"; third, "the aggressive advance of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical empire," which is "seeking not only spiritual and religious domination but political power...
...Great Britain (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), the airlines had been able to: 1) refuel for their transatlantic flights, and 2) pick up and discharge passengers (traffic rights). The agreement ended when Newfoundland joined the Dominion, since Canada had never granted traffic privileges to U.S. lines. Thus she had a strong card to play for more air rights from...
Britons also had cause for worry; last week, facing Canada's same strong card, they too were negotiating to keep their traffic rights at Gander...
...responsibilities they have shirked. A girl is haunted by the ghost of her mother's neglected lover; a playwright dreams of a creature who, unlike the actress in the role, knows how to play his heroine; a scruple-torn pacifist meets the stern spirit of his strong-willed military ancestor; a young man abandons his girl friend to consort with the ghost of a woman he has never met; two old maids gain a sense of vicarious lawlessness from the ghost of an ancestor who was a smuggler; a woman abandons her fiance to the ghost of a woman...