Word: infidelities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...juvenile, it is the kind of literary fare that parents will gobble up if they can get it away from the kids. The Saracen's Head can be read in an hour, but in that brief time Willie runs his shaky lance through El Babooni, the infidel champ, is knighted by King Richard I himself, and unwillingly carries the royal standard up the walls in the historic storming of Acre...
...other hand, what it really meant was a genuine peace move. The North Atlantic pact was a factor. The airlift was a factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn't know any more than the infidel press, so it weaseled. It put its banner headline on a House of Commons debate about a bill to provide analgesia for childbirth: COMMONS BACKS PAIN RELIEF FOR MOTHERS. Then, into column 5, halfway down, it dropped a three-inch story with the noncommittal head: MOLOTOV REPLACED BY VISHINSKY...
...probably in the 5th Century), the cardinals were in charge of important churches in and around Rome. Yet while there was evil in the world, there would be danger, even at the center of Christendom. The cardinals were reminded that they as well as those who went among the infidel were expected to be faithful unto death...
...house whose front windows looked out on a zoo, the back windows on a cemetery. The dim living room was papered in dark green-a "chamber of horrors," groaned Poet FitzGerald, "[in which my wife looks] like Lucretia Borgia." FitzGerald found "a sort of consolation" in "some curious Infidel and Epicurean Tetrastichs by a Persian of the Eleventh Century-as Savage against Destiny ... as Manfred-but mostly of Epicurean Pathos of this kind -'Drink-for the Moon will often come round to look for us in this Garden and find us not.'" After a few moons, his marriage...
...family lands, given him a splendid palace. They had given him lucrative Army contracts for wood. When El Mahdi Pasha promised his followers a square meter in Heaven for every meter of lumber they felled, fanatic Sudanese woodsmen chopped trees with as much zeal as if they had been infidel heads...