Word: benison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the late Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey had to be forcibly ejected from a Cathedral service for vociferating against Manning's attacks on "companionate marriage." the thin-lipped Bishop finished his benison and then called for a hymn. Said he: "Let us sing 'Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might.'" That hymn might have been his motto in his battles with advocates of easy divorce, isolationists, opponents of pan-Christian unity, proponents of a Presbyterian-Episcopalian merger...
...whose favorite procedure is to close with a Jap ship on the surface, damning her fire and sinking her with his deck gun. There is Roy Davenport, Burlingame's onetime executive officer, who prays devoutly, prowling beneath Jap waters with the firm belief that his torpedoes carry the benison of heaven...
...plane slid down. Briefly the public eye caught the Archbishop in a characteristic pose. In an open-air chapel, once the Shah's garden, he celebrated field mass. A portable organ played; a U.S. servicemen's choir sang. The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies...