Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just a year after V-E day, the U.S. Army's reputation in Europe-once as bright and shining as a liberator's sword-had disintegrated into disrepute. Last week General Joseph McNarney, commander of all U.S. troops in the European Theater, finally cracked the whip of discipline on the Army of Occupation in Germany (see below). But the situation which called for this action had been worsening for a long time. In the Christian Century, the Rev. Renwick C. Kennedy, an ex-Army chaplain now returned to his pastorate at Camden, Ala. after 20 months in Europe...
...Most Ingenious Paradox."Niebuhr is at his characteristic best when he wields the flashing, two-edged sword of paradox: his book's most brilliant chapters are titled "The Power and Weakness of God" and "Mystery and Meaning." In the first, he cites the symbol of Christ crucified as the great reconciliation of two apparent irreconcilables-God's all-powerful goodness, and the power of evil in the world. In God's own willingness to submit to His creature man's free will, says Niebuhr, His final majesty-mercy-is revealed. In "Mystery and Meaning...
...consider our feelings if matters were reversed-Russia holding the secret, producing a daily increasing number of atomic bombs . . . announcing officially that this "Damoclean sword" would be kept especially from the U.S., etc. All this would throw our country into a state of alarm which would make the effect of the Pearl Harbor attack seem like a W.C.T.U. picnic. . . . There would be no reconversion- only armament. We would insist that Russia either share the secret or "destroy every atomic bomb, smash every facility for making another," before a basis of unity could be established and the U.N. fulfill its proper...
Fairly modest about it, but willing to let others share his secrets, contemporary journalism's readiest confessor (earlier autobiographical volumes: Personal History, Not Peace but a Sword, Between the Thunder and the Sun) reports on what he has been up to during recent years. In the spring of 1942, at the age of 42, he joined the Army Air Forces. He rose from captain to lieutenant colonel...
...noblemen drinking a battle-health in their saddles-is like the crest of the medieval wave. The mastering action of the battle, however, begins with a prodigious truck-shot of the bannered, advancing French chivalry shifting from a walk to a full gallop, intercut with King Henry's sword, poised for signal, and his archers, bows drawn, waiting for it. The release-an arc of hundreds of arrows speeding with the twang of a gigantic guitar on their victorious way-is one of the most gratifying payoffs of suspense yet contrived...