Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Professionally, it's been tough. New country, new language, new customs, all the logistic difficulties that go with Latin American life. The saving grace is the people, particularly the Brazilians-open, kind, lively and human. For the newsman with a problem, they go out of their way to provide a solution...
...office and home. At the request of California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, several churches tolled their bells at the hour of Mitchell's execution "in penitence for our part in this judicial and legalized murder." But C. Julian Bartlett, the dean of Myers' own Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, declined the request...
...Freudenberger, who directed the show and designed the sets, has properly kept the rhymes and songs as unobtrusive as possible, grace notes to a theme. Everyone who is called on to sing manages the rough, sad voice of the balladeer...
...Laotian Prince Souvanna Phouma's neutrality was imposed by the U.S., Russia and the twelve other signers of the Geneva Accord of 1962, leaving Laos a tenuously tripartite land that is part Communist, Royalist and neutral. Premier by the grace of all three factions, Souvanna Phouma was far more candid than Sihanouk last week in touring his own troubled horizon...
Puck & Pan. He arrived at Cambridge with a scholarship at Trinity. "A shy prig," is his own description; too shy to ask where the toilets were, he walked to the one at the railway station. At Trinity, dons were gargling grace in two alternate systems of Latin pronunciation; the junior dean had to be eased out because, though his sermons were eloquent, he had become crippled by syphilis and had raped his daughter. The master was another kind of monster-a snob. Yet this cloister now housed some of the brightest spirits...