Word: lockup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lent or Lockup? The custom of penitential preparation for every feast was inherited by the early Christians from the Jews. Early penitents in the Holy Land observed Lent by eating only two meals a week. But St. John Chrysostom (4th Century) did not urge such Spartan austerity for the multitude of believers...
Into the mairie marched the men of the F.F.I.; grabbed the collaborationist Mayor, marched him off with cuffs and kicks to the lockup. From among their neighbors they chose a new Mayor. Thousands of men & women thronged the bomb-scarred square to hear him speak from a balcony draped with the Stars & Stripes and the Tricolor. Emotion clogged the Mayor's voice as he gave thanks to the Americans. He said: "Up to now we have been slaves. Today we are Frenchmen." The crowd responded with surf-like cheers: Vive la France! Vive l'Amérique! Vive...