Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rising Sun flag still floats over villages in our area. Jap officers demand written authorization of unit commanders before allowing American troops to take souvenirs, rifles, swords, etc. Jap officers and civilians ride around in automobiles while American troops, with a limited number of trucks and jeeps, must walk...
...weak absolutely weak, but neither is aware of this. They have in common a refusal to believe that they both belong to the same species: the weak see no relation between themselves and the strong, and vice versa. The man who is the possessor of force seems to walk through a non-resistant element; in the human substance that surrounds him nothing has the power to interpose, between the impulse and the act, the tiny interval that is reflection. Where there is no room for reflection, there is none either for justice or prudence...
...Godly Man who kept his Sabbaths, his should be blessings of those who walk in the right way. 'These blessings'-the words came back to me from the Evening Lesson-'these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.' And suddenly, in the mild summer air, it seemed as if, like a swarm of bees inadvertently wakened, the blessings of the Old Testament were actually rushing after me. From the hot, remote, passionate past of Hebrew history, out of the Oriental climate and unctuous lives of that infuriate people, gross good things were, coming to overwhelm...
...never felt quite strong enough to walk without the crutch of Big Three meetings. When Harry Truman removed the crutch last week, Russia and Britain wondered just what Truman meant...
Despite Truman's optimism over UNO, the question remained whether UNO could walk alone. Even if the stymied Council of Foreign Ministers handles the peace treaties, as Potsdam stipulated, UNO will have plenty of headaches. The agenda of the first General Assembly meeting in January includes such knotty problems as Palestine, trusteeships and refugees-not to mention the atom bomb...