Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, he argued that unless society draws on its ancient capital of morality and religion it will degenerate into anarchy and ruin. He said that any sanction for freedom has to be based on something more than expediency, that an acceptance of natural law tends to be a protection of liberty...
...Union. He first expressed grateful thanks to a kind Providence, "whose protection has been ever present and whose bounty has been manifold and abundant." He summed up the good state in which the U.S. finds itself in the winter of 1956 (see box). Then, in accordance with the constitutional sanction, he turned to the prospects for the future...
Constitutional Sanction...
Roosevelt's Ambassador to Moscow, Averell Harriman, confirmed that the grand alliance was indeed crumbling, specifically, that the Russians would sanction no form of democratic government for Poland. "Every argument ... I advanced was brushed aside," Harriman reported. "Aside from the major questions which are causing concern in our relations with the Soviet Union, there has been an accumulation of minor incidents . . . Little or no progress has been made in getting Soviet approval for our air teams to visit Soviet-controlled territory for appraisal of bomb damage, or for our naval team to [inspect the port of] Gdynia. Both proposals...
Abdominal Heroism. At the beginning of World War II, Shinto was both a doctrine and a patriotic duty. Its symbol was the Emperor, who was not actually worshiped (though his ancestors were), but revered for his divine descent and the heavenly sanction of his rule. The Emperor's picture in government buildings was an object of veneration; a classic tradition tells of a schoolboy who, when his school caught fire, rolled up the picture, slashed open his belly, thrust it inside and struggled through the flames to die a hero's death outside. Even as late...