Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...released, and the city fathers spent $5,000,000 (about $7,000 U.S.) on street decorations. In Chungking, cheering crowds sang the unifying words of the new China's national anthem. For the first time in a decade they were not idle words. Peace had brought back a vision: a reunited China...
...Vision. Mao and General Chou had chafed under Chiang's simultaneous airborne seizures and roundtable amenities. Moscow had signed a broad treaty with Chiang's China at a time when China's Communists were hardest pressed. At least for the present, Mao could not count on outside support...
Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo got on the mark for another senatorial filibuster (30 days if necessary), visualized himself as the savior of $250 million in public funds by killing a freight-rate bill. A succeeding vision: a bigger & better Capitol to be built with the $250 million. He was "ashamed," he said, of the present "old, dilapidated, dirty Capitol," insisted that Cuba's was better and that the county courthouse back home in Mississippi had Washington's beat for comfort and convenience...
Just before dawn one morning in September 1938, an aging Pasadena cultleader named Charles Long woke up with a start and saw a vision. Like most supernatural phenomena manifested in Southern California, it had English subtitles and Disney animation-a luminous hand scrawled "Daniel, Chapter 12" on a spectral blackboard floating near the foot of Long's bed. Before fading away, the hand wrote three dates, the last and most significant, 1945. To a man of Long's perception the meaning' was clear-in seven years the world was going to blow up like a bottle...
...decided that the Lord had slyly been training him as an oracle. Born in Turkey, he had been a missionary in Syria, Egypt and Palestine, had come to Pasadena in 1932 to found a minuscule cult called Remnant of the Church of God. But despite these qualifications and the vision, sinners paid no particular attention to his prophecy-at least, until last...