Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most perilous honors in Scotland's academic world is election to the purely decorative post of Rector of the University of Glasgow. In a remarkable display of grace under fire, Britain's Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler last week was installed and violently decorated by fun-loving undergraduates. "By 1970," Rab Butler was telling some 2.000 roaring students, "Britain can expect to increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing...
...years, Mrs. George Burns has accumulated an overflow of nostalgia-good times, well-used gags and trademarked nitwitticisms that made her vaudeville's, radio's and TV's longest-suffered, best-loved wife. Her Irish father, a song-and-dance man from San Francisco, named her Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalia Allen, and at three, Gracie joined his act in top hat and red whiskers. In 1922, after hunger had urged her into secretarial school, she caught the down-at-heel act of George Burns (real name: Nathan Birn-baum). George promised to feed her, even became...
...Cardinal Gerlier, onetime Bishop of Lourdes, walked slowly to the pulpit and looked down at the long line of wheelchairs in the front row of the congregation. "Lourdes is a land of miracles," he said, "but it is above all a place where an avalanche of grace takes place. It is a real hospital for souls...
...Gothic gloom of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral house on Nob Hill, 115 clerical and 385 lay delegates elected him Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of California-slated to succeed Diocesan Bishop Karl Morgan Block when he retires next December. It took six ballots to do it. In Pike's favor were his age (44), moderate Low-Churchmanship and vigorous stand-taking as dean of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Against him were his ex-Roman Catholicism, the annulment of his first marriage and the same vigorous stand-taking...
...chin the inflexible horizontal bar of manhood than do the dull louts whom he outshines in class but cannot outrun on the playground. At first sight, the problem seems ordinary. Should Clemente yield himself to the incitements of his wakening sexuality or keep himself a fit vessel of grace? As Soldati tells it, Clemente's sex proliferates through his veins like the roots of a tree under a marble pavement...