Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew, it encountered opposition. Plump Maria Theresa of Austria, a doting and jealous wife, had her husband's Masonic lodge raided because she was sure that her philandering Francis was up to no good. More effective opposition came from the Catholic Church. Pope Clement XII, in 1738, issued a papal edict denouncing Masonry as a trespass on the church's spiritual and moral domain. Rome's opposition to Masonry has been unceasing. The church, which excommunicated all Communists last week, has been excommunicating Masons for 200 years...
...Bari, a struggling blacksmith, Angelo Pantoso, fretted: "I believe in God. God protected me at war, but when I came back home, only the Communist Party explained the cause of my poverty. Now there is a storm in my mind...
Last month Garry Davis came to Trouillas. Fabrégas introduced him to the village's bright-eyed mayor, Gaston Méric. Davis had trouble understanding Méric's Catalan dialect, and Méric had trouble understanding Davis' French; but ideas percolated back & forth. Said the mayor, after Davis had gone: "I felt sure he was a nut. I'm still not sure he isn't. But maybe that's what we need to have peace...
...Edinburgh went to a fancy dress party last week costumed as a butler and chambermaid. Their host, Ambassador Douglas, was rigged out as a farmer. His wife hid her gentle features behind a horse's mask to appear as The Old Grey Mare. Their daughter, honey-haired Sharman, came as A Portrait of a Lady; she carried around a huge picture frame, finally abandoned it in a corner...
...Then came a desperate week of marching and hiding. There was almost no food. The goat fell sick, and then Marianthi and Papouas fell sick. The doctor said angrily that they had caught a fever from the goat. Papouas was captured by the enemy, and Marianthi, disheartened and dizzy with fever, gave herself...