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...parish church, young Sean would kneel by the hour before a "full-sized carved and colored figuration of Purgatory," praying most particularly for "the girl highest in the group, always almost redeemed, her long, fair hair always falling to her waist, her manacles always already parted, her uppermost hand always just out of reach of the Divine Child's foot." O'Faolain's father was "absolutely loyal to the Empire, as only a born hero-worshiper can be," and after Sunday services Sean would accompany him to the British army barracks on Wellington Road to watch...
JAPAN. The ancient Japanese ritual of chanoyu takes place in a little teahouse beside a stony brook rimmed with flowers. Guests learn how to kneel, bow, and savor the subtleties of the venerable ceremony while munching sweet cake and sipping bitter green...
...convinced. He is obviously fond of hay, but he is also fond of lettuce. In a series of dramatic robberies he acquires so much of it that he becomes a power in the kingdom: a state within a state, a law without the law. At his command men kneel and women lie down. "Paris is mine!" he cries...
...subversives. They were rarely seen in class, and their ages ran well into the 30s. All during turbulent 1963, Castroite F.A.L.N. terrorists took refuge on the campus-which is off limits to police. Recently, Castroite students beat up two policemen found on campus; and two others were forced to kneel and beg for their lives...
Some guards could not sleep well at night unless they had beaten someone to death during the day, recalled Dr. Otto Wolken, 60, an Austrian physician at Auschwitz. Calmly pointing out one defendant, Stephan Baretzki, Wolken explained how the guard organized "rabbit hunts." A prisoner would kneel down before Baretzki. At the order "Go, go," the inmate would scamper away on all fours. Then he was shot in the back. While the police dogs at Auschwitz slept in warm, clean kennels with concrete floors, humans were housed in filthy, crowded barracks where they lapped the muddy floor...