Word: crutch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gian Carlo Menotti's opera about the poor, crippled boy who generously offers his crutch to the "Child" in Bethlehem...
...Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from arthritis) and snowy-haired, he still shuffled among his charges, softly scolding fidgeters with a light tap of his crutch and explaining to visitors, "They hear...
...upon withdrawal from the world, ascetic practice, corporate worship through the liturgy-ideals that were all carried over into the life of Catholic laymen. Along with doctrine, Protestantism strongly rejected this otherworldly spirituality. Puritanism, notes Congregationalist Historian Horton Davies of Princeton, dismissed liturgy "as a lame man might a crutch when he believed himself healed," in favor of free prayer, the Bible and simplicity. Davies quotes from a 1641 Puritan attack on Anglican Prayer Book worship as the work of "mere Surplice and Service-Book men, such as cannot doe so much as a Porter in his frocke...
...suffered eleven bone frac tures, and frostbitten toes are a commonplace. Once, when stranded for eight days at the tip of the Alaskan peninsula, he survived by fishing safely while a grizzly bear pack lurked near by. He rarely carries a rifle. "A rifle," he says, "is a crutch. If you've got one, there are likely to be times when you break down and use it. If you just say, 'Hell, I'm going to take pictures no matter what happens,' there is a mystic rapport, somehow, between you and the animals. At that point...
...former playmate, a freed slave. The rest of the family goes searching for him, enduring separation, fear and wanton slaughter, before they return home just in time to ride off for Sunday services at the village church. There, naturally, the lost son hobbles in on a makeshift crutch. Shenandoah's final comment on the futility of war conveys the odd impression that it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people...