Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words to his book, Failure of a Mission, no one knows. Certainly he had a sense of failure. "Peace was my big objective," he wrote of his two and a half years as British Ambassador in Berlin. "I did not go to Berlin to curse, but where possible to bless." When he stepped off the train in London, Great Britain had declared war on Germany...
Urging the people to hate the Nazi party and "let the wolves eat themselves, God bless them," Alexander Loudon, Ambassador to the United States from Netherlands, addressed the last meeting of the third annual convention of the Netherlands University League of North America last night in a candle-light dinner at Fogg Museum...
...Refused to bless U.S. participation in the war, but asserted that Axis aims "are not merely unChristian; they are positively anti-Christian...
...conversation emphasized the small talk of people in the middle of a big war-only 20 minutes flying time distant from a Nazi aerodrome. People said "God Bless" to each other the way Americans say "Good-by." The maid at the hotel said "Thank you" each time she served a dish. A salvage worker proudly told how Cromer won the East Anglia salvage contest. There were echoes of a hot controversy about whether the church should set its wall back to make more room for parked cars. A German bomb had settled that...
...Sambula vanaka" is the native greeting, meaning "God bless you," and the shortened "bula" means "hello." U.S. soldiers and grinning natives shout "bula" at each other whenever they meet. One day a corporal said "bula" to a black boy. Reply: "Bula, hell, I came over on the boat with...