Word: profession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where possible, Konev uses Studebaker trucks, for whose six wheels, four gears and sturdiness Red officers profess high regard. Artillery is hauled by tractors, men, and small, shaggy Siberian ponies, which need amazingly little food and rest. U.S. jeeps do the rest, because the Russians have found them marvelous mud buggies...
...Allied mission is headed by steel-grey Lieut. General F. N. Mason-MacFar-lane ("Mason Mac"), Governor of Gibraltar; its Chief of Staff is 42-year-old U.S. Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. The mission, the King and Badoglio all profess to have Italy's best interests at heart, but insist that their actions be judged first by the immediate necessity of driving out the Germans. Their joint plan is to broaden the flimsy base of the Badoglio Government by including in it the top leadership of the six political parties which have survived or sprung...
...prelate has one of the world's minor sees. There are only three hospitals, three parishes, two elementary schools, 400 Catholics. Of Iceland's 120,000 people, 94,000 are Lutherans. Like those in Denmark, they are High-Church, wear Mass vestments, etc. Some 20,000 Icelanders profess no faith at all. They live on isolated farms, so church-going is a good deal of a chore...
...both capacities he has consistently espoused the down-to-earth view of religion, shown little patience with unpractical applications of faith. He stood out among U.S. Protestant leaders for a steadfast refusal to espouse pacifism after World War I. He still finds pacifism "immoral and unchristian." To those who profess it, believing they thereby follow Jesus' teachings literally, Poling quotes from P. W. Wilson's Newtopia to point out that Jesus asked nothing of society, had no home, no money, spent his life in service of others. He argues that unless a pacifist can live as Jesus lived...
...communication carried on between government and people. Without reflecting at all, necessarily, on the wisdom of the long-range policies carried out by such means, they are assisting what William Graham Sumner long ago grimly felt to be the one hope of democracy-that the men who profess it should know how it works. And in a democracy, under a two-party system, whatever political adroitness there may be in the release of news and information, it is a game at which two or more can play. Indeed, it is in its role as one of the checks and balances...