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...Loyal Opposition. This kind of nobility of purpose, overriding possible ridicule and probable defeat, finally began to affect the electorate: Willkie's stock rose steadily and swiftly; his final rush to victory was nipped off only when Franklin Roosevelt made a smashing series of attacks on the poor Republican Congressional record, leading off with the "Martin, Barton & Fish" speech. The margin of Willkie's defeat was much narrower than is even now generally realized...
Italy had all the chaos necessary to all-out anarchy. It did not have anarchy-yet, but Italians would not stay mute and muddled forever. At some point they would have to make up their minds in which direction they wanted to go. And the way they went would affect all Europe...
...down at a small stream footing the mount. Small groups tried to rush the bridge. Each time they were mowed down. The battalion's lieutenant colonel was 30-year-old John Child Pearson of Blundellsland (near Liverpool), who sported the wide mustache that Sandhurst's young graduates affect. Somewhere he found a rose, and pinned it to his blouse. He stepped out, jauntily swinging his swagger stick, as casually as if he were taking a Sunday stroll in the country. He strode down the middle of the road, his men following, reached the bridge across the little stream...
Phil Johnson, who had a Scandinavian indestructibility which no amount of toil seemed to affect, stopped off for a day's work at Boeing's Wichita plant on the way home. That night, without warning, he collapsed with a cerebral hemorrhage. By next evening Phil Johnson was dead...
...Roman Empire, not chiefly as a belief, though it was a belief, but more as a self-conscious fellowship. ... A group of 50 really devoted Christians who are not in the least apologetic and who are willing to make the spread of the gospel their first interest would affect mightily any campus in the country, no matter how great the initial opposition might be. The same can be said of an average town. The prospects for the gospel might be better if the average town had only a few dozen Christians in place of the few thousand church members...