Word: minsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preparation for public life. He was born in Sept. 18, 1895 in the Ontario village of Newstadt, son of a German-descended schoolteacher who liked to boast that he had taught William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's famed and durable (1921-48, except for five years) Liberal Prime Minster. When John was eight, father Diefenbaker took his family to a Saskatchewan crossroads where the northern prairies turn into a subarctic wasteland of muskeg, timber and lakes. There one day father Diefenbaker tied a red bandanna to the rim of a wagon wheel and, counting the turns of the wheel...
...Lott and the golpe faction. In the midst of the crisis, a heart attack flattened President Joāo Café Filho, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Luz, took over as Brazil's Acting President. Luz, suspected of being a golpista, ruled against War Minster Lott in the affair of the loose-lipped colonel. Lott resigned, and Luz promptly named a golpista general as War Minister...
...financial circles. As "the only mind in the conservative ranks," he knew the facts of the internationalist position. But he could never rise above the short-run interests of his own section. Never, that is, until the first months of the Eisenhower Administration when, acting as Eisenhower's "Prime Minster," he whipped Eastern and Midwestern Republicans into the same line. But death cut short Taft's brief experience with truly national leadership. For most of his public life, he was too much a representative to be a statesman...
...Witch & Minster. At the core of the book is a miracle. While digging the foundation for a new Franciscan cloister, young Edwin Widowson unearths a queer, antique fist of pure gold. The friars set a guard to it, but the next night Edwin, persuaded by outlaws, filches the treasure and leaves in its place the hand of his brother, who has been hanged. "Miracle!" cry the good friars in the morning...
...work impossible cures, and the lord bishop decides to erect a cathedral on the spot of its discovery. The whole village dedicates itself to the labor-and to his horror, guilty Edwin, a gifted woodcutter, becomes the chief decorator of this colossal memorial to his lie. As the great minster rises in the wold, Edwin is condemned, by a keen irony, to give his life to its embellishment...