Word: prophet
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Deliberately Willkie had divested himself of any possible glamor; distrusting heroics and grandiosity, he had stripped his speeches to bare, plain statements. But the people who had shouted "We Want Willkie!" were not hoping for a simple, humble fellow but for a great, forceful leader, a torchbearer, a prophet, a hero...
Even such professional cynics as newsmen knew that no mere love of office or appetite for acclaim could drive a man to the punishment Willkie was taking daily -not the boos, but the grinding strain of the campaign. "A punch-drunk prophet," said one newshawk...
...rich enough to do. At this point the cat pops out of the bag. Pleader Brailsford declares that only the U. S. can reconquer Nazified Europe-and that means another U. S. expeditionary force. Or perhaps it means that Liberal Brailsford is too logical to make a good prophet...
...years, wrote Prophet Lyle, "these things went on with scarcely a ripple on the serene surface of world affairs. . . . Then ... in cold blood the German Government set about manufacturing provocation for the attack. . . . Suddenly the world was asked to believe that we were war-mad aggressors wantonly attacking an unprepared and peace-loving Fatherland. . . . Then-the German ultimatum...
Last week, in a big old house in San Diego, white-haired Eugene Lyle, now 66, sat listening to radio reports of the war he had awaited since 1918. Asked who will be Europe's master in 1960, Prophet Lyle saw too many uncertainties ahead. Of one thing only was he positive: "The combatants will still be recovering from the exhaustion, economic and spiritual...