Word: damien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive huts or roofless stone buildings; they died without medical care in an empty room furnished only by their waiting coffins. In his 16 years of heroic service on Molokai, which ended with his death from leprosy in 1889, Father Damien made many improvements, including a water system built largely with his own hands. Now the colony, located at Kalaupapa, has a 60-bed hospital, four doctors...
...said they thought political union a fine idea, but "not yet." Quebec's free-thinking Senator Telesphore Damien Bouchard believed in "closer and closer relations." John L. McDougall, Queen's University economist, neatly sidestepped: "Weight of isolationist opinion in the United States is [such] that I think the question inopportune. . . ." AILothers replied with a flat negative...
...Ottawa's plush red Senate chamber. Télésphore Damien Bouchard rose to make his maiden speech as a Senator from Quebec Province. His explosive subject: the not-so-latent hostility between French Quebec and the rest of Canada. Said he: "I still believe that a large majority of my compatriots love Canada as it is, constitutionally and otherwise, and do not want any change in their allegiance. . . . Their only wrongdoing is that they care too little about those who . . . are sabotaging our free institutions. The worms are gnawing at the tree of liberty...
...Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh, Phillips Noble Weeks, Phillips Whidden, Richard Robinson Wood, Edward Woodward...
...Moscow correspondents are going to read "Damyankee" into every place where they find the hallowed name of Damien, they will have Damyankees appearing in history a thousand years before Columbus...