Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this tumult was to accept a degree in political science from the University of Ankara. The citation praised Eisenhower as soldier and President, noted that he had served as president of Columbia University. Another honor: honorary membership in the Turkish War Veterans Association. Said Ike, as he accepted: "I know what kind of fighters the Turks are, so I appreciate this very much...
Finally, negation may be the "protest of affirmative nature against what seems to be the sterilizing claims of grace." But all that man can know of God is the way in which he cannot know God," Sittler explained, and therefore negation "brings to decisive clarity precisely what is involved in the affirmation of Grace and Nature." Faith has its peculiar courage in virtue of the persistent negation that accompanies it; faith is the ultimate risk, not a freedom from risk...
...true that Audience by no means considers itself a quarterly dedicated to the Harvard undergrad. But you would be surprised to know how many letters we get from editors across the country envying us for being supported by Harvard and assuming that we are a Harvard publication. Of course, we are not supported in any way by the University, never have been, and never will be, and have no official connection with Harvard...
...spilled by British Historian Arthur Bryant in a book called The Turn of the Tide (TIME, May 20, 1957). Who really devised the strategy that defeated Germany? Bryant's answer: General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1941 to 1946. How did Historian Bryant know? Because the general -now Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke-had said so in his diary, which is the meat and bones of The Turn of the Tide. As Brooke saw it, the Americans were military chumps and not always well-meaning ones. His boss, Churchill, was a splendid fellow but really just...
...Germans out to the very periphery of Fortress Europa so as to take the heat off both the Russians and the coming Allied attack on Normandy. This idea was at the heart of the Italian campaign. But according to Alanbrooke, Ike and Mark Clark never did seem to know what that part of the war was all about. A much better collaborator in the Alanbrooke plan was Hitler himself. By fighting where Brookie wanted him to, he dispersed German strength and made victory possible...