Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation conference of nations principally affected by the canal seizure (including Russia and Egypt, excluding Israel) to negotiate what he carefully termed "an adequate and dependable international administration of the canal on terms which would respect, and generously respect, all the legitimate rights of Egypt." But what if Nasser chose not to heed the moral forces of the conference, even to attend it? Said Dulles: "We have given no commitments at any time as to what the U.S. would do in that unhappy contingency ... I believe that by this conference we will invoke moral forces which are bound to prevail...
Quarrels being the order of the day at the Mai-Mai, it took only a few Kaffir-beers before the Negroes chose up sides and began brawling. Within minutes, the fracas got out of hand, and several hundred enraged natives began hurling iron beer mugs, while Negro municipal police looked on helplessly. Spilling into the street, the mob continued the battle with knives, stones and tools. Suddenly, as several Negroes staggered about with screwdrivers and knives sticking grotesquely from their backs, the crowd made an unspoken truce. Ranging themselves on either side of the street, they turned their fury...
...Vendetta. Three months ago, during Italy's municipal elections, the Communists staged a big rally in the square. Don Cesare chose this moment to toll his bells in celebration of a three-day vigil for St. Catherine of Siena. The deafening tones of the tocsin scattered the Red audience like autumn leaves. Three days later, the biggest bell disappeared, skillfully and silently lowered by pulleys from its 75-ft. belfry. "It wasn't for the value of the bell that they stole it," said Don Cesare, eying the gaping space in his bell tower. "It was done...
Gallantry of Course. Saints have traveled a gruesome gamut of agonizing deaths. Blessed Margaret Clitherow, a jolly, capable British housewife who had hid many an underground cleric in her secret "priests' chamber," chose not to plead innocent or guilty at her trial in 1586 so as not to involve her children or Anglican husband-though she knew the penalty for such a stand was being pressed to death. "She was about a quarter of an hour in dying," flat on the ground with a sharp stone under her back and a door on her body with "weights placed upon...
...ways the saints lived are even more astonishing than the ways they died. Margaret of Hungary was born a princess, but she chose to minister to the sick in ways that Attwater describes as "menial, repulsive, exhausting and insanitary." Her imitation of the lives of the poor was so squalidly real that at times her fellow nuns shrank from contact with her. She ate almost nothing, slept hardly at all and died in 1270 at 28. St. Benedict Labre was another dirty saint who spent most of his life tramping from shrine to shrine throughout 18th century Europe, sleeping...