Word: cur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the wild-eyed agitators in the audience hissed the child, cheered the cur. Challenged to say how medical science could advance without experiments on animals, anti-vivisectionists had suggested using human beings-starting with waterfront bums, then prisoners in the jails, finally the inmates of insane asylums...
When pretty, well-born Suzanne balked at marrying the man her mother had picked out for her, she was packed off to the famed and saintly Curé d'Ars.* But instead of bringing Suzanne round to her mother's view of things, the curé said: "God has other things...
Test by Witch Doctor. The words of the Curé d'Ars had set young Suzanne training herself to be a missionary. She used family pull for permission to attend lectures at a medical school, where she hid behind a screen so that the other medical students would not know a female was present. She spent two years nursing soldiers in the filth of the Crimean War. Then, still in her early 20s, she met a French missionary bishop on his way back to New Zealand. Suzanne decided that the time had at last come to leave home...
...Besnard, a matron of 53, who owned six houses in the town, the local White Horse inn, and a number of thriving stud farms. Marie had acquired property the easy way through the deaths of a succession of relatives and her purse strings were always loosened when M. le Curé came to call with a worthy charity in mind. Marie, said the people of Loudun, was "the only woman in town who could go to communion without first going to confession...