Word: franciscan
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...Heaven." August is the moon of its ripening, the month when the grain turns yellow and the lakes where the wild rice grows look like golden plains. After the ripening comes the moon of the harvest, when the Chippewas gather the rice just as they did when the exploring Franciscan, Father Louis Hennepin, first saw them...
...three cities are, in that order, Rome, London, Paris. In Rome young Deodato is a foundling, serving, unwillingly, as a Franciscan friar. What really interests him is sculpture, a young woman who looks like a statue by Bernini, and her revolutionary brother, whom he hides in the Catacombs...
Finishing with a last-round 73 for a 72-hole total of 287, the broad-shouldered San Franciscan who had won only two major tournaments since turning pro four years ago, seemed to have his first Open wrapped up. Perhaps it was his previous experience over British seaside links that helped him battle the tricky Lake Erie winds that baffled other top-notchers...
...said nothing. Like many another San Franciscan, its suave, cool President James Byers Black contemplated last week four ways in which San Francisco (short of shutting down Hetch Hetchy's turbines) may try to extricate itself from the dilemma. The ways...
Pacifists, perpetually broke, with a Franciscan disdain for material possessions, the Catholic Workers conduct four farms, maintain Houses of Hospitality for the poor in 23 U. S. cities. Last week in Pittsburgh a Catholic Worker, Father Charles Owen Rice, did something he had long wanted to do. With the blessing of his bishop, he gave up the modest but secure post of an assistant pastor-$33 a month, plus room & board-and became priest of a flophouse, his salary to be whatever he could scare...