Word: archangel
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...called the Greater Volga Project. G.V.P., a technically audacious scheme, was laid aside in 1939 and is now being dusted off and revised by a special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians live, it would install 14 new hydroelectric power stations. It would add enough water to the Volga to maintain-or lift-the level of the Caspian...
...week behind the Kremlin's walls. Foreign correspondents, on a rare sightseeing trip, saw signs of a thoroughgoing restoration project.* The nine gilded, onion-shaped domes of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, stripped of their camouflage paint, shone in the October sun. At the nearby Cathedral of the Archangel (where the Tsars lie buried), and all over the Kremlin's 90 acres, roofs were being fixed and walls painted...
...truly believe that the spirit lives, and that the corpse is an outworn tent in which it no longer dwells, why not treat it so? But the Prayer Book still commits it to the ground from which it is supposed to come, where it is to rest until the archangel's trumpet summons it to rise incorruptible. We once heard of a funeral which seems far more Christian. The body was buried-or, we trust, cremated-as soon as possible, with no publicity, and a week or so later a memorial service was held in which the friends...
Denunciations & Epiphanies. Other aspects of Joyce's intense life which are more extensively and dramatically reported in the first draft are his wild hero worship of Ibsen ("Ibsen has the temper of an archangel"), his fierce denunciations of things Irish ("I don't think the Irish peasant represents a very admirable type of culture"), the "plague of Catholicism," and the Jesuits ("He spurned before him the stale maxims of the Jesuits and . . . swore an oath that they should never establish over him an ascendancy...
...active service at Gibraltar. Huge, salty, genial Boddam-Whetham commanded destroyers through World War I, in 1939 retired. Five weeks later he rejoined the Service, during the next three years took some 30 convoys safely through the seven seas, was in charge of a famed, fanatically assaulted Archangel convoy in the fall of 1942. Once during the eight-day air attack one of his escorting destroyers picked off a crippled German plane. Boddam-Whetham flashed a message: "Thought it not done to shoot a sitting bird...