Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Llewellyn Thompson, the U.S. Ambassador and High Commissioner in Austria, hasn't been seen at his Vienna post this year. The Embassy employees say they don't know where he is."-Leonard Lyons, June...
During World War II Leonard Cheshire was a first-class fighting man. In 1943, after completing a tour of operations in Halifax bombers, he became the youngest group captain (equals U.S. colonel) in the R.A.F. He had himself demoted to wing commander so that he could take over command of the famed 617 Squadron, nicknamed "The Dam-Busters." where he developed a new low-level technique of marking targets. After more than 100 missions, he won Britain's highest decoration, the Victoria Cross...
...Today Leonard Cheshire, 36, has some 60 patients in three settlements and feels that he has found his life's work. He has taken over a group of houses on an abandoned airfield in Cornwall, some for incurables and others for mild mental cases. His original house is turned over to younger people who are seriously ill and have no one to look after them. Funds for their care are provided by the National Health Service, local authorities, and what Cheshire is able to raise...
...Form of Substitution. Since he began his work, two important things have happened to Leonard Cheshire. Arthur, his first patient, was a Roman Catholic, and when it came time for him to die, Cheshire dug out a Catholic book: One Lord, One Faith, by Vernon Johnson, an Anglican minister's strongly partisan account of his conversion to Roman Catholicism. In the early morning hours after Arthur's death, Cheshire read it through and knew that at last he had found the authority he had been looking for. "After the war," he says...
...another form of substitution," Leonard Cheshire explains. "People who suffer, but who cannot go to Lourdes, can get their friends to go for them-to intervene for them. It is the same tenet as Christ on the cross. They can carry their friends' suffering for them and bring them back the benefits...