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...heterodox, rigidly disciplined Christianity of the Worldwide Church of God, that could mean anything. In Herbert Armstrong's theology, unknown to much of his public, the British and the Americans are among the ten lost Hebrew tribes, destined to fight -and succumb to-a renewed Holy Roman Empire probably led by Germany. Then a Chinese-Russian alliance will fight the battle of Armageddon with the victor. At first, Herbert Armstrong predicted the beginning of the end for the late 1930s. The most recent Apocalypse...
...with drinks and innocent flattery and lured me upstairs to some remote bedroom . . . and unbuttoned her dress with trembling fingers and drew me down onto the bed . . . murmuring her demure desire and then stuffed her tit in my mouth and her hand down my trousers ... I believe I might succumb...
...American director has matched his consistency. John Ford palmed off three sentimental pot-boilers for every gritty piece of goods he managed; for long stretches Huston went for cash alone, and then stopped caring at all; soreheads Welles and Peckinpah get fired often. Kubrick, however, was too headstrong to succumb to yesmen and too foxy for the cashiers...
Doherty was surprised that his team didn't succumb to the late-game pressure. "The boys didn't think they could win, even when we were ahead. 21-9. They weren't convinced until the gun sounded," he said...
South Viet Nam and Laos did? The reply took issue with the conventional application of the domino theory. "With the possible exception of Cambodia," said the CIA, "it is likely that no nation in the area would quickly succumb to Communism." The spread of Communism would not be "inexorable...