Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much money." A U.S. Army chaplain .helped him get some secondhand tin for his church roof. When the church tower is finished, Ye plans to put a tablet over the entrance proclaiming that, as the ravens fed Elijah, so "the G.I.s from beyond the Pacific fed God's prophet and helped to build God's church...
...could not say the same for the Navy as a whole. The whole trouble, he summed up acidly, was "the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church...
...Hungarian-born Eugen Varga was a major prophet among Soviet economic seers. He undertook to make an analysis of the war's effect on the economy of capitalist countries. After patient study of the portents, he put his conclusions in a book which was not allowed circulation outside a close circle of party potentates...
...Aviv, in one ambush killed seven Jews. At week's end, the fighting again abated for a day as Arabs celebrated the birthday of Mohamed. It was an ominous holiday. Throughout the Arab world, mosques reverberated with fiery anti-partition speeches made in the name of the Prophet. On the streets of Damascus, Syrian Boy Scouts sold "Rescue Palestine" buttons. The funds they raised would be used to prepare the full-scale war for which both Arabs and Jews were bracing themselves...
...adapter: Robinson Jeffers), responded to a request by the Saturday Review of Literature for a list of her current reading. Besides the collected poems of Robinson Jeffers, Actress Anderson, who plays eight hard shows a week, listed one current novel, a couple of biographies, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, the collected works of Charles Dickens, the collected works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce's Ulysses, the Bible...