Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME used the Communist wiggle-word "liquidate" to express how euphemistic Communists are about some things...
...which he should fulfill either through his own person or through his money," said the Ulema. "Anybody failing to fulfill such duty will be punished by Allah. Allah promised to give Paradise to Moslems who [participate]. . . . Let the echo of your voice carry from East to West the lovely word which is dear to the faithful-Jihad, Jihad, Jihad-and Allah be with...
Edward Alexander ("Aleister") Crowley was born 72 years ago into a conventional world. Being conventional, that world pretended that it was easily shocked. Aleister determined to be a shocking young man. He went to Cambridge and became interested in magick (as he insisted on spelling the word). On a legacy of ?30,000 he traveled to China and Tibet for further studies in the black art. Most of his books and poems (Clouds Without Water, The Winged Beetle, Confessions') were printed privately because of their obscenity. Aleister achieved his shocking ambition. But he discovered that, although he was notorious...
...that, Jews had blessed him as he left New York, and there were more of them at Santos Dumont. To the Jews and to his peace-loving Brazilian countrymen, he had a word of hope: "The wish to use words [in the U.N.] springs from the wish not to use arms." He had also a sober warning: "The world is undoubtedly divided into two blocs, the democratic and the Soviet. The work of all democrats and liberals must be devoted to attract back to liberty and democracy those who have renounced...
Aranha, now 53, holds some powerful cards. His own opposition National Democratic Union Party sees him as a natural; President Dutra and the government respect his work at U.N. But talkative Aranha cagily refuses to say a word about the presidency. "It is like being advertised as the star of a football match," he says warily. "You may be destroyed before the end of the game...