Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stout, pipe-smoking Deputy Prime Minister Klement Gottwald, 48, an exile in Moscow between 1939 and 1945; 2) the Social Democrats, led by mousy, opportunistic Prime Minister Fierlinger, 54; 3) the Socialists, led by Dr. Benes; and 4) the People's (Catholic) Party, led by portly, colorful, progressive Monsignor Jan Sramek, 75, ex-Prime Minister and now Deputy Prime Minister...
Prime Minister Fierlinger's Russophilism pulls the Social Democrats toward the Communists. But Dr. Benes has a stout friend in Monsignor Sramek, whose reports presumably account for the Vatican's belief that predominantly Catholic (74%) Czechoslovakia may indeed find its middle...
...Said Monsignor Sheen: "I hate Communism, but I love Communists...
...Monsignor de Ferrari packed the pair on a raft, started off down river with them and several other jungle children for his mission school. In the night, the Kirikas leapt upon a sleeping child. An awakened missionary collared them, saw that támara thorns were in their hands. Thereafter, the Kirikas were bound to the raft with stout ropes...
Some nights later, when the expedition had moved ashore, Monsignor de Ferrari was startled from his sleep by the eerie screams of a howling dog. With his Indian helpers he set off in the direction of the howls. On the ground they found the disemboweled body of the Monsignor's favorite dog. Its eyes had been plucked; its belly had been ripped. Regretfully, the priest concluded that his Kirika charges had done the deed...