Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country the people sang and waved and prayed and wept with him, and he sang and waved and wept with them, and they drew power from each other. In Czestochowa, a vast expanse of several hundred thousand worshipers, at a single hand gesture of the Pope, sank to the earth, like a field of instantly scythed wheat, to pray...
...camp (including some 200 priests), eager to roll up their sleeves and show the tattooed serial numbers on their arms. Said one of the first inmates, an old man who had been injected with typhoid in a Nazi medical experiment: "Our religion helped us survive the greatest hell on earth." Said another: "One miracle is that I did not die in this camp. The second is that we have a Polish Pope...
...Poland's Unknown Soldier: I wished to kneel before this tomb to venerate every seed that falls into the earth and dies and thus bears fruit. All that, the history of the motherland shaped for a thousand years by the succession of generations- among them the present generation and the coming generation- and by each son and daughter of the motherland, even if they are anonymous and unknown like the soldier before whose tomb we are now. All that, including the history of the peoples that have lived with us and among us, such as those who died...
Godot may or may not be waiting in the wings, but death is always imminent in Beckett. "Earth, the old extinguisher," Winnie says - the last resort for pain...
William Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian minister and antiwar activist, on strategic arms talks: "We must be moved to press not only for SALT II, but for SALT III, IV, V and VI. We have to be meek, or there will be no one left to inherit the earth...