Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Allied military men believe that the Germans made one colossal blunder: their decision to invade Russia rather than Britain. Not only in the popular British view, but in the view of Allied military men, immediately after Dunkirk Britain lacked the physical means of repelling a determined invasion. The Germans would have found it costly but they would probably have succeeded...
...cannot jump to what we consider perfection if the other fellow does not go the whole way. He might think that his point of view was just as good or better than ours...
...this, in my opinion, is what demoralized Christianity, and Protestantism in particular: that a clergy which is worldly in every particular, instead of admitting that it is indulgence from a Christian point of view, has reversed the position and made that worldliness into something Christian, something far nobler and truer than real self-abnegation [and] poverty. . . . The world has seen through that, and the clergy is consequently without influence...
...Finished." The bodies lay on the ground for many hours. Then, to give the mob a better view, the partisans hanged Mussolini and Petacci by their feet from a scaffold on the Piazza. "Hah!" jeered an onlooker, "Mussolini has become...
Taking an unusual approach to the problem, Professor Sorokin expressed a "cold-blooded" and pessimistic view of the conference. "I don't think it can secure lasting peace,' he stated, "with only D plus and C minus statesmen there...