Word: christ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want my holiday that week so I went on working. Alerts were steady and we were taking spells on the aircraft-spotting tower. Well, at one particular imminent-danger warning I was on the tower and over a flying bomb came. She missed and fell and I thought, "Christ, right smack on Hillford Garden,"-that's where we live. So when the imminent passed I went to the gate and got on the phone to a neighbor and there was no answer. Just then a lorry pulled in and the driver said: "Don't worry, Mate. I hear...
...trustworthy. And once you're asleep in your own Anderson it's not too bad because you're so tired you don't give a damn anyway. The bad time is the in-between time. From the moment you knock off you are on edge. Christ, it's all very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there are things a bloke has to do in the meantime. And even at home-lumme, I like that word for the way I live-there are letters to write and socks...
Such gullibility was traced farther back by John Morris in Traveler from Tokyo (Sheridan House; $2.75), Morris, an Englishman once attached to the Japanese Foreign Office as an adviser, wrote that Jap newspapers calmly assert that the airplane is a Japanese invention, that Jesus Christ was born in the north of Japan...
...drunk. Some, like Soldier-Poet Robert Graves at the end of World War I, may go walking by themselves, "cursing and sobbing and thinking of the dead." For those who observe the surrenders of Germany and Japan by going to church, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America last week published "A Service of Worship for Use by the Churches...
...There have been nine Episcopalian Presidents: Washington, Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce, Arthur and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The other 22 Presidents have included five Presbyterians, four Methodists, four Unitarians, two Reformed Dutch, one Quaker, Baptist, Congregationalist, Disciple of Christ. Jefferson, Lincoln and Hayes were not church members...