Word: mortalizes
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...small Aymara pueblos of the Altiplano and among the Indies who worked the copper mines near the Chilean and Peruvian borders, his name was spoken with reverence. On festive days thousands of Indians crowded Lake Titicaca's shores, watched in awe and admiration as Paka-Jake swam: no mortal, sensible Indian would think of swimming in the holy water which is also ice cold...
...streets begging for food. An eyewitness described them:' "They look less human than little monsters; dirty, ragged, with eyes that will haunt me forever. They trust no one and expect only the worst from human beings. They slide along the walls of houses, looking about them in mortal fear...
Sirs: . . . About 5% of the German people dared to vote against Hitler as late as 1934, were courageous enough to help the oppressed ones and to exercise humane acts under mortal danger. On these true Christian Germans, these descendants of Lessing, Goethe, Mozart and Beethoven, the inevitable new edifice of the German state must be based. They must take over the jobs of city mayors, of foremen in factories, of presidents in scientific societies. . . . But how can they be found out? I propose that a list be made up of all such Germans who committed dangerous actions to help innocent...
...Britain maintains moderately agreeable relations with the Spanish Fascist Government of Francisco Franco, mortal enemy of Joseph Stalin...
...oily blue-blackness of smoke, the strange black flowers and white streamers painted on the sky by planes and bursting ack-ack, the mortal brilliance of blood-Technicolor vindicates the remark made about it at its birth a decade ago that "Now Hollywood is ready to film the Last Judgment." The film jumps crazily when the bombs rock the Hand; and the camera shifts again & again to the faces of two young Marines firing an anti-aircraft gun-not in fear, not in bloodthirst, but only intently, the way an outfielder watches a fly ball...