Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Friday the Reich Bishop offered those pastors who rebelled at the imposition of Nazidom upon their church an iron olive branch: "I admonish them to abandon their perverted craving for martyrdom and submit as a Christian duty. Govern the tongue, that unruly member. The church conflict has filled the mass of our people with astonishment, scorn and bitterness, for they cannot understand why pastors should quarrel. Nothing cures the itch for church politics like a visit to the sick...
...skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. Not a scrap of metal was found in Jericho, thus bolstering the statement in Joshua: And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. The foodstuffs dug up in the ruins of Jericho had remained uneaten because, as Holy Writ reports, the captors spurned such remnants of an "accursed" city...
...promptly denied complicity.) But black-shirted judges no longer fear for their regime. Conspirator Capasso was acquitted. Claudio Cianca was let off with 18 years in jail. The other two got 30 years. Great tears of thankfulness rolled down their cheeks as the three prisoners were led from their iron cage to begin sentence...
Dipping into the workers' quarter, the gale found an iron stove pipe that was loose in its stone collar, sticking out of a peasant's window. Angrily it ripped out the pipe, broke the window. Inside the hut, flame leaped high, licked the thatch ceiling, quickly gobbled up the whole hut. The gale pulled out the flame like taffy, spread it over the next hut and the next...
...supervisor peered into the beehive, gave an alarm signal. Some of the mounds on the mold floor had worked loose, were floating on the surface of the glass. The iron bolts holding them in place had melted...