Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people utter folly...
...World War II (during which his hair turned practically white). His 44th Infantry Division drove through Germany into Austria, helped force the surrender of the Nineteenth German army, took 30,000 prisoners. General Dean was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism in action . . . outstanding leadership and utter disregard for personal safety." Said General Douglas MacArthur last week: "It is still hoped that this gallant officer, if alive, has not fallen into enemy hands...
...Brave) Kramer's film is especially notable for avoiding the slick solution and the easy out. It is not a picture in which faith-healers or master surgeons, in the last reel, make cripples walk again. Its basic theme is courage-courage in the face of utter hopelessness. It eloquently shows that cripples cannot get along with the world or themselves-and neither, for that matter, can normal people-unless they face reality and come to terms with...
...Depths. Transferred to another prison where his execution seemed imminent, Lilje reached new depths of spiritual and physical suffering. But at this stage of utter helplessness he found his sense of God most sure. "At this extreme limit of human life," he writes, "it becomes clear why God is with those who are despised, outcast, tortured, imprisoned, disinherited and solitary...
...churches are sacramental, while in certain others they are of no effect. Certain of the Protestant churches it thus includes make exactly the same classification. The various denominations whom these churches exclude, in turn, look upon the Catholic Church as the Scarlet Woman of Babylon and consider it an utter perversion of Christianity. "Where are we going to draw the line? If we admit 'Christianity' to a privileged position, how do we define it? ... Balancing, say, Vermont against New 'Mex ico we can see that legally, state by state, Christianity' would vary as much as divorce...