Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Americans marched into Monschau on the German-Belgian frontier last September, pretty Maria, a 17-year-old German, watched them in stony silence. But she confided her feelings to her lover, Peter, an SS man, in letters which she could not mail to unoccupied Germany. The letters were discovered when Maria was arrested last week for talking to a would-be Nazi saboteur...
...feel it clearly," wrote Maria, "that we, the youth, are a sorely tried, but also a steeled youth and as hard as iron, destined to fight on for the ideal of our indispensable Führer. When everybody deserts the Leader, he will be able to depend on his real youth. They will never betray...
Strapped to an improvised operating table lay Andre di Bernardi, a spiritualist suffering from an inflamed appendix. While a phonograph played Gounod's Ave Maria, mediums "materialized" Dr. Luiz Gomes do Amaral, who died 19 years ago. The patient waited, fully conscious and quivering. He felt clammy hands on his body, a tingling scratch on his abdomen. A soft voice reassured him that he would feel no pain. Water splashed in a pail by his side as if an invisible surgeon were washing invisible hands...
...Maria Manton, 20, flame-haired daughter of Marlene Dietrich, preparing to make her Broadway debut in a play called Foolish Notion, announced that she would stand on her own two legs-though they were not as shapely nor as celebrated as her mother's. Said Maria: "I have never done anything but be born to a famous mother. ... I want to get some place by myself. . . . That is why . . . I am not interested in movies...
Methodist Bishop Eleazar Guerra appealed for tolerance. Mexico's tiny Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez calmly declared: "Protestant activities do not interest the Catholic Church." And peace was restored for a while...