Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear eyes, the careless hair that the British prefer for their archetype rather than the beery John Bull. His speech is slow and unemotional. He is never without a briefcase that bulges, like a refugee's pack, with badly duplicated memoranda and official reports. He is the Rev. Michael Scott; he has no official position, not even a parish. He can point to few positive achievements. Some of his friends claim that he has worsened situations he came to change. Yet he has won himself a rare position in the Western world...
WHEN the courts of South Africa tried Michael Scott for breaking the laws that now rigidly segregate Europeans and non-Europeans, he was asked how he could decently mix with such people. He answered with a quotation...
...MICHAEL SCOTT is a clergyman of the Church of England. He is a man who has tried to "be absolutely logical about being a Christian, and to carry the logic into public life and politics. He has tried to practice such uncomfortable texts as "Thou shalt love thy neighbor." In doing so he has found himself in a position where many sincere men regard him as a mischievous crank, a self-advertising fanatic and an easy tool for Communists. Many other men regard him as their only effective friend in politics, as a man who intends to do good...
Though many had tried, none had ever escaped for long from Stalag-Luft III, deep in the heart of Germany. But past failures did not discourage Captain Richard Michael Clinton Codner of the Royal Artillery, a young (23) and bronzed Oxford undergraduate with a mop of black hair and a sensitive, mischievous face. Around the camp he was known as "a classical fellow, always reading Latin and he could spout it by the yard...
...supply. Codner led a party into the jungle to repair it. They had not gone far when a band of guerrillas sprang from ambush with blazing Bren and Sten guns. When help came, it was too late-twelve of the repair party were dead. One of them was Richard Michael Clinton Codner, who had been wounded by machine gun fire, tried to crawl to cover, and was shot dead beneath a bush...