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...stirring, sends him out to pick berries. He becomes confused, can't recall the turns in the road and stumbles home in shame. In one of the film's most moving moments, he confesses to Ethel why he returned so quickly: "I was scared to death-that's why I came running back. To see your pretty face, to feel safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last. Kate and Hank! Hepburn and Fonda in On Golden Pond | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Worse, perhaps, the bowhead had been hunted to death-that leviathan of the Quakers' psalmbook that God put in "this great and wide sea ... to play therein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whole Sea Catalogue | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...Many in my family were ready to consider my wife just a beautiful siren who had tempted me away," explains Frank Ostrowski, 38, who left his Minnesota teaching post after eleven years as a priest. "But I finally got my parents to accept what to them was almost like death-that their dear, darling son was no longer a priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Priests in the Secular World | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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