Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ISAMBART DE LA PIERRE, Dominican friar: "The executioner . . . said to me that he greatly feared he was damned, for he had burnt a saint...
...there now began one of the classic heresy trials of Christian history. That trial, held in Rouen (Feb. 21-May 31, 1431) under Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, is now a familiar story. Far less familiar is a second trial that, 19 years later, resurrected the ashes of the burnt heretic and transformed her into a heroine...
...last she meets and wins the perfect lover (James Olson), but there follows neither romantic lightning nor satiric laughter. There is rather the chill discovery that even now she cannot respond, that the seeker of a grand passion is incapable of any passion, and all her swains have been burnt by lack of fire...
...policy should be strained the relations, with the Chinese Reds; the more strained the relations, the better the foreign policy; and anyone who is sorry about this is surely a traitor. From Here to Shimbashi is a dangerous book for the soft minds of our youth; let it be burnt. JOHN SACK...
...Service in recent years has radically changed its aims and methods. Less than 20 years ago its mission was to snuff out fires and preserve the noble woods intact as leafy museums. Nowadays the Forest Service runs a thriving business, selling prime wood to private lumbermen, reforesting cutover or burnt-out areas, farming the nation's trees on a longterm, big-business basis. In 1953 the Treasury banked $70 million in cash receipts from national forest sales...