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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deter the rulers of Soviet Russia." But rearmament is proceeding too rapidly and may spoil the chances of a peaceful settlement. "In 1953 . . . the Americans will possess a dominance in armed strength . . . greater than that which was ever possessed by any other country in peacetime. It is not unknown for a giant to wish to use his strength, even though he is not attacked." Few Britons, except the editors of the Daily Worker and Bevan's followers, had anything good to say about Nye Bevan's proposed road for Britain...
...sort of papacy Luther challenged 450 years ago, and celebrate the way in which the Reformation purified religion. This makes us feel superior ... Our pretensions to spiritual superiority were little questioned so long as the Catholics kept to the other side of the tracks and spoke in an unknown tongue. But that day is done...
...There are eerie regions of sediment which, for reasons that remain unknown, are carpeted with a soft, red substance devoid of any organic remains but sharks' teeth and the ear bones of whales...
When the Apostle Paul made his famous speech on Athens' Mars' Hill, declaring to the pagan Athenians the reality of that unknown God whom they ignorantly worshiped, some mocked, and others said, "We will hear thee again of this matter." But most of them doubtless went away and forgot all about...
...school and his first two years at Ohio State University, where he did little else than sit reading in the library with his hair in his eyes, looking like an emaciated sheep dog. After testing him, the psychology department reported that he had a remarkable memory. Unkempt, unloved and unknown, he was on his way to a Phi Beta Kappa key, perhaps to a life of scholarship...