Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hobbling down the street. "For two years I have not been able to walk," she cried. "I was carried to the Father. Now look at me. I'm walking. Viva Padre Antonio." Those who followed her joined in a throaty "Viva." Then she shouted: "Viva our Lady of Grace," and the crowd chorused. Two women with her wept. Men doffed their hats as she moved slowly past...
Although Magic Town is not worked out with much acuteness or grace, it views with a wholesome if very mild disapproval: 1) the overwillingness of many Americans to play guinea pig with their private lives; 2) their ugly and pathetic capacity for materialistic vanity; and 3) the ease with which affection and rust can be abused in dedication...
...their eagerness to put the calculator to work, the committee should not let the preparedness of the physicists outweigh the need of the psychologist. The latter must be given a little grace to reorient his thinking. As Professor Leontief, also a member, of the committee, points out, his fellow economists have intentionally pursued their investigations in broad, vague terms, because of the tediousness and expense of dealing mathematically with the voluminous statistics confronting them. The genius of the calculator is that it can deal with many variables operating simultaneously. In the fluid and changing battleground of economics, sociology, and social...
Farewell to Grace. His chapter on Grace Moore was written before her death: ". . . she was one of those obnoxious little girls, congenitally exhibitionist, for whom some sort of career that would keep her before the public gaze was inevitable. . . . She doesn't really love music...
Geographically, Virginia, northernmost of the Confederate states, lies about the middle of the Atlantic seaboard. But its traditions, the record of the numerous and illustrious leaders it has given the nation, and its reverence for the gentility, charm, and grace that characterize life below the Mason-Dixon line, make Virginia one of the most "southern" of all states. Its attitude toward racial segregation stems almost inevitably from the brutality and humiliation of the Reconstruction era, an era whose traces have not even yet entirely passed away...