Word: lents
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...strutted and beamed. Some 400 children romped in the Sala Farnese-some in 18th century costumes, some dressed as little workers, with appropriate red masks. Outside, Margherita Gardens lay silent and deserted under a foot of snow, while the cardinal gloomed at home. With the long, austere days of Lent stretching ahead, it looked as if there would be no carnival that year...
There was a church called Community Church, and it was John Hancock's kind of institution. It recognized that religion was hollow without social principles, and it liked to sponsor men with ideas about society--all kinds of ideas, from conservative to radical. A few of the men had lent their ideas to groups some congressional committees had said were "subversive." But, like John Hancock, the Church was not afraid of freedom of speech. Its members liked the chance to make up its own minds. The Community Church won a respected place among Boston's institutions...
...Despair lent the murderers courage to face their fate. Meekly they surrendered and asked a Roman Catholic priest to baptize them. Then, all eight squatted on the ground and kissed a handful of red earth in token of their love for the land. A few minutes later, as the morning golfers watched, they disappeared up the ramp leading to the hidden gallows. "The executions," said an official bulletin, "were carried out according...
...Fruit Co. that the government will expropriate 225,000 acres of the company's 300,000-acre plantations at Tiquisate (TIME, March 2). Included in the bite: 125,000 acres of woods and brush, 87,000 acres leased to others for cattle and crops, and 12,000 acres lent by the company to its workers to grow corn and beans...
...Next day the task of bringing in the big ships became vastly more complicated because longshoremen had decided not to cross the tugboatmen's picket lines. Steamship company office workers came to the rescue, many of them in natty business suits and overcoats as they lent a hand at the lines...