Word: sworde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain, the U.S. made a brave and momentous act of leadership, and the man who took it to action, Admiral Sherman, went on to Naples to die of the weight he and other men had borne in the years beneath the sword...
...traditions must help each other or be lost. Catholics need "a passionate Evangelical zeal for teaching and preaching the truth. They must not neglect that sword of the spirit which is the Word of God." Evangelicals, in their turn, "must recognize the need for due order and authority within the Church. They must recapture the reality of the supernatural in the sacraments . . . With the common enemy at the gate, how criminal that the garrison should be divided by labels which in reality are . . . but obverse and reverse of the one saving truth...
Also on display is an order from the French monarch commanding Lafayette to defend Paris during the Revolution of 1789 and his French National Guard sword...
Fred Rentschler is a farsighted, practical dreamer. "Every five or ten years," he says, "there comes an opportunity for a complete reversal in aviation power plants. That is the sword always hanging over our heads...
...Greater Loyalty. Where can man look for a sword to cut the thread? Only, says Berggrav, in that which marks the difference between, a people and a mob-the conscience, where speaks the voice of God. Only insofar as Christians recognize a loyalty greater than their loyalty to the state "can law and freedom, realities which the state is supposed to protect, continue to exist...