Word: awakened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the French opportunities have not been too well publicized and because the prevailing red tape is discouraging, the number of takers has been low. But the moderate cost of living in France and the attractions of Paris in the Spring are bound to awaken an appetite for Gallic extension courses among those who never thought much of school work. France, a country with a crying need for tourist trade, is less concerned with the intellectual means of its prospective culture crop than it is with the dollars that will accompany it. The success of this program in future years...
...abbey, fallen into ruin after the Reformation, are rising again, and Iona's fertile soil has once more become dedicated ground. Sandy-mustached Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, 51, is no medievalist nor sentimental ruin-regarder. His purpose is hardly less ambitious than St. Columba's: to eventually awaken Scotland and England to a new concept and practice of religion. To many a Scottish Presbyterian, he seems a worthy successor to the Celtic saint himself...
...takes something like this letter to awaken us to the appalling fact that America after all is far from being a Christian nation...
...problem of the educator is, above all, to touch, awaken, perhaps even transform the student. Proceeding from small things that can be seen and felt, to large things that can be dealt with only in abstraction, is one of the surest ways of igniting the diffident...
...managers translated the three words into specific needs, and sent hurry-up calls for more food. In the U.S., where food was richer and more plentiful than before the war, where everything from elephants to lolly-pops could be bought in the black market, the people began to awaken-a little. Housewives, seeing their grocers' shelves still filled to overflowing, began to ask: "What...