Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warfield Hobbs, chief publicity secretary of the Episcopal Board of Missions, remarked to Manhattan newsgatherers: "We are adhering strictly to the Mexican law. . . . As (Episcopal) Bishop Frank W. Creighton said shortly after his arrival in Mexico, 'Our Mission has nothing to do with diplomacy, industry or politics. . . . Mexico knows what is best for Mexico...
...Duty compelled him to leave the disturbed town, sacrifice his men and sneak down through the desert to see some powerful sheiks. He had to take her along. He fell in love with her. And then of course, when it was a question between her honor and his exalted mission in the sheiks' camp, he scrapped the mission. . . . That is not quite the way the story ends, nor would it be fair to say more. Slapstick though it is, the conclusion of this book is one of the most surprising, ingenious and broadly humorous twists ever...
...shouts of "Long live the King!" King Alfonso said: "Things in Spain are going satisfactorily, which is proved by my presence here. Let's be optimistic. We have been through plenty of dark days. The dawn is breaking. Spaniards must lay aside their political strife. That is my mission, namely, to find a common meeting ground so as to discover the means of developing our wonderful resources...
...demonstrate their mutual moral turpitude at an earlier period and his current civil dishonesty. Though infuriated mobs attempted to lynch them both in the streets, Mme. Caillaux escaped conviction. So abysmal was their disgrace that his few remaining influential friends rushed him out of France on a flimsily concocted "mission" to South America...
...carried out and completed this naturally unpopular mission not only with the objective impartially of an expert, but with noble, puritan unselfishness and as a friend who understood Hungary's uphill reconstruction fight...