Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister McIntosh had powerful arguments to make to Canada's Government. The cooperative deal was an attractive prospect for the Dominion's postwar economy-as far as the farmers could see. And for the time being, at least, the farmer's view was C.C.F.'s view...
...Washington, the War Department took the view that the newsmen had lost their heads; censorship, imposed by Generals Bradley and Hodges, was justified by the circumstances. Younger officers, however, conceded that if the public relations people had played fair and sensibly in the past, had not withheld news which had no real security angle, then in this crisis they could have got prompt cooperation...
...missionaries swarming into Ethiopia. Their aim: to "reclaim" for the Catholic faith the five million members of Ethiopia's ancient Christian Coptic Church. Since then Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God and Emperor of Ethiopia, has taken a very dim view of missionaries in general, Catholic missionaries in particular...
...Primate of Norway's State Lutheran Church, on Feb. 24, 1942. Arrested two months later by Puppet Dictator Vidkun Quisling, he has ever since been confined by barbed wire to an area 500 meters long by 200 wide. For company he has only the pines, a far-off view of the icy blue waters of Oslo Fjord, and the dozen Hirdmen (quisling Storm Troopers) who guard...
...Ohio, out on the Mississippi, with its streaming files of ducks and geese, the boat sailed on. "Red-yellow moon," wrote Irving, "silver star-calm, cobalt-green sky reflected in river . . . wide, treeless, prairie-trembling with heat-here not a tree or a shrub was to be seen -a view like that of the ocean . . . beautiful clear river, group of Indian nymphs half naked on banks...