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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...