Word: lenten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lenten calm settled over Central America. At Costa Rican Junta President José Figueres' finca, which had recently rung with the none-too-rhythmic clump of marching Caribbean Legionnaires, silent peons spread coffee beans on the patio to dry in the warm tropical sun. The Legion was dead. It had been done in by the guile of its old enemy, Nicaragua's "Tacho" Somoza-and by the no-nonsense order of the Organization of American States (TIME, Jan. 3). The end had come before the Legion could fire a shot at Tacho or its other prime target, Dominican...
...board at the House dining room, and yet no effort is made by the College to provide board which I can with a clear conscience ingest. Yet at the same time every facility is provided for the benefit of the followers of certain other sects who observe Lenten restrictions on diet...
...Christian calendar, Palm Sunday is a day on which hope contends with despair. The faithful express their joy in commemoration of Christ's entry into Jerusalem; they remember, in Lenten sorrow, His Crucifixion...
...priests assigned to preach Lenten sermons, the Pope declared that Italians who failed to vote in the coming elections (see FOREIGN NEWS) were sinners. "He who abstains . . ." he said, "especially for indolence or for cowardice, commits thereby a grave sin and mortal fault...
Clearly it is not a faith for the tender-minded. It is a faith for a Lenten age. Even those who fail to follow all the sinuosities of his reasoning must sense that, whatever else he has done or left undone, Niebuhr has restored to Protestantism a Christian virility. For, in the name of courage, which men have always rightly esteemed in one another as the indispensable virtue, he summons Protestants to seek truth...