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...thunder plot. Of course, there is a photoplay, something about Cortez and the Inquisition and the trials of chivalry; but in the category that counts, the number of varlets pinioned per reel, it falls woofully short. Power himself suffers more than all his adversaries combined, culminating with a grievous wound in the left shouder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain from Castile | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

Whittling. Last week the problem was being threshed out in Washington. Some Cabinet members, convinced that the U.S. had made a grievous error in backing partition, talked quietly behind closed doors of reversing U.S. policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bad Medicine | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Ancient Preachers | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Maine endured other grievous losses. By week's end eight towns had been destroyed, 1,056 houses burned, 100,000 acres of woodland gutted, 13 people killed and 2,500 made homeless. Maine's fires-and hundreds of others scattered through New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York-still blazed and smoldered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: A Lovely Time of Year | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...fluttering leaflets and, without a glance at their words, lighted them with matches-a hundred little torches blazing in the gloom. The Church helped Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats as never before. Said one priest from the pulpit: "He who fails to vote commits a most grievous sin. Catholics must see that Christ's cross and not the hammer & sickle rises above the Campanile of Capitol Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Vox Populi | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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