Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Churchill raised the roof, Bonomi finally offered Badoglio a job in the new Cabinet as Defense Minister. The old Marshal had the grace and good sense to decline, offered to serve his country whenever he is both needed and wanted...
...religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness to their faith. . . . The enemy . . . may hurl back our forces. But we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace . . . our sons will triumph...
...Grace? The London Daily Mirror printed the story (with names withheld). Englishmen were shocked. The U.S. Army had Parliament's sanction to deal with its own delinquents in its own way but this time Englishmen could not keep quiet. Pointing out the "reasonable doubts" in the case, the Mirror indignantly editorialized: "In America, which has a color problem peculiar to herself, clemency might not be possible. Here . . . it may not be impossible as an act of grace to take a different view...
...Toronto, the Veterans Association National Council proclaimed that the words "pensioners" and "pensions" must be stricken from the Canada Pension Act because they carry with them "the connotation of a hireling . . . one who is in receipt of an income as an act of grace." One of the Council's member organizations: the Canadian Pensioners Association...
...Gothic stillness of San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral. 1,000 men & women of all faiths gathered one noon last week for pre-invasion prayers. They listened as Godfrey Fisher, British consul general in San Francisco, read from Paul's fiery letter to the Ephesians...