Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese are steeped in propaganda. In intellectual circles there are democratic tendencies. There are liberals who would form a government. Most of them are university professors who have retained their courage and vision. But there is no opposition to the militarists. Even the Communists are unorganized...
...Munich last week burly Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, 76, longtime anti-Nazi who ones narrowly escaped being sent to Dachau, asked General Eisenhower for permission to build a convent on the site of that most dreaded of Nazi concentration camps. His vision: to make the scene of 20th-century mass martyrdom a place of pilgrimage for people of all faiths...
...Yale is looking for a venture which will be acclaimed for its leadership and vision in the country and in the world," said the committee, "we believe that this is the venture. ... A study of prayer, faith and deeds will be no less profitable than the same sort of study in economics and agriculture...
Colombia's new-dealing President Alfonso LÓpez is respected throughout South America as a statesman of vision and intelligence. But the exuberance of Colombian politics sometimes unnerves him. At such times he offers the Senate his resignation. LÓpez has offered to resign because of 1) a political scandal following the murder of "Mamatoco" (an obscure Negro boxer), 2) a division in the ranks of his political supporters, 3) his wife's illness, 4) Colombia's humid political atmosphere. In the past two years the Senate has consistently refused his resignations...
...abstraction to inexpressible obscenity, from the monkeys which defiled villages and ruined precious crops, to the snakes which every year killed 20,000 people. More extreme devotees, the Jains, even placed cloths over their mouths and noses lest they breathe in and kill forms of life too minute for vision but nevertheless God-created...