Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just Beast." William Temple, the only son of an Archbishop of Canterbury ever to follow his father, was born in the Bishop's Palace at Exeter. Later, Bishop Frederick Temple became headmaster of Rugby, and young William learned Latin and Greek on backless benches in chilly rooms among fellow students who referred to his father as "a beast, but a just beast." "Fat Willie Temple'' was both precocious and impish. From Rugby he went on to Balliol College, Oxford, where he made a brilliant academic record and became president of the Oxford Union...
...Dictator Jorge Ubico heard that the mob was hunting him "like a wild beast." took refuge in the British Legation...
...there is some magic in our land, As on Darien surmised; Some distant purpose hidden in the hand Some ultimate fulfillment of the free . . . It is that there incarnates in the beast A Spirit native to the universe, Which by our signature we have released, Beyond recall, from human custody. . . . Strong men these are, whose hearts can never rest; Forever ending, only to begin; Forever moving on the trackless quest Of what forever is, yet cannot be: Forever turned to face the arduous West- The dream of progress to infinity - The eternal destination of the free...
...situations depicting the search for Gorgon's FATHER. The combined efforts of Barnaby, O'Malley and Atlas the Mental Giant are brought to bear. Gorgon père is finally discovered to be the nameless, galumphing coach hound of the local fire department. But that slobbering, fragrant beast has no vocabulary other than "Arf," is a parasitic icebox-crasher to boot. He refuses to move off the Baxter's porch rocker until frightened by the word "bath...
...more decisively than had feckless Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS). With her went her priceless stores of nickel, manganese and cobalt. Fat, foolish Hungary lay open to the Russians. The "holy soil" of the Reich itself had already been torn by the tracks of U.S. tanks. The haze before the beast's eyes deepened. Soon night would shut...