Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Forest." His defiance loosed an organized campaign of persecution, beginning with the arrest of Ronald Fangen, Christian leader and author, for an article published in Berggrav's magazine. Churchmen protested vigorously, and the people of Norway, whose lives are lived among the tall pines that point toward heaven, began to talk of their clergy as "The Great Forest...
...Great Forest" was afire with indignation, and its flames licked into every corner of the land. From pulpit after pulpit the letter was read, in defiance of police on hand to prevent it. Printing presses throughout Norway ran off copies by thousands. Said Bishop Berggrav: "When the truth becomes something sacred for us, it is then that it can create martyrs." Abashed by the Church's readiness for martyrdom and fearful of popular uprisings in its defense, the puppet government eased its campaign of terror and suppression...
...Peace of Heaven. On April 9, Führer Quisling ordered the arrest of Bishop Berggrav and four other leaders of the Christian Council. The five were thrown into Grini concentration camp. A week later Berggrav was removed to solitary confinement in his forest...
...simple pleasures, the sight of the roads through the magnificent country, the cheerful little taverns, the abundance of good plain food, the clean fresh rivers where he bathed morning & night. Morning after morning he awakened before dawn, breathing the pure air and listening to the sounds of the forest, the wind in the trees, the bells on the horses, sometimes the distant howling of wolves. Often he lay awake at night, seeing the moon and stars through the treetops and listening to the subdued talk of the frontiersmen...
...hasty notes evoke the freshness of that vanished time. On Monday, Sept. 3, 1832, at 5 in the evening, the steamer Messenger left Cincinnati and carried the traveler into a land of enchantment: "-light of fires-chant & chorus of Negro boatmen-wavering light of moon & stars-silent, primeval forest sleeping in sunshine-on each side still forest-forest-forest...