Word: churchyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Belgrave Square in the prosperous '20s, Gladys Aylward enjoyed her life as a downstairs maid. But one Sunday after church, a preacher shaking hands with her said, surprisingly: "Well, Miss Aylward, God is wanting you." Gladys pulled her hand away and ran down the churchyard path perplexed and a little angered. But back in her servants' quarters, she found that the preacher's words had taken root. She had lost her taste for parties and dancing, and life seemed suddenly meaningless and empty. When she finally spoke to a neighboring minister's wife...
...over the rough roads, the country folk pressed into the stalls along the Rua Feliciano Mendes for coffee. Because a big-time operator from Belo Horizonte had rented every room in town and sublet them to prostitutes at $10 a day, the pilgrims slept in the streets, in the churchyard or in trucks...
...Line. In a little village beyond the Pindus range, the footsore and dog-tired Bigart found his man. Bigart met Markos and his foreign minister Roussos there. With a woman of the town as interpreter, they sat on the grass in a shady churchyard and talked...
...Senate will pay for his funeral. Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, Senator James 0. Eastland, five Congressmen, scores of state officials, crowded into the Juniper Grove Baptist Church (built with Bilbo's donations) to attend the services. Five thousand humbler folk stood outside in the churchyard and listened to the services via loudspeakers...
Sunday, Feb.11 was a chill day of intermittent rain. In the dripping churchyard after service, Dean Beekman told his organist: "You never played hymns better." Whipp thanked him, and cheerfully set off to lunch with friends at Auteuil...