Word: mortalizes
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...first verses I vowed that I would evermore and everywhere magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of man." For any save the most hopeless skeptic the story of Bernadette Soubirous, fully and devotedly told as it is here, is a strong recall toward "these ultimate values of our mortal lot." Her life is not merely, as Werfel says, "the greatest miracle of modern times," it is also the victorious pitting of the undefended and essential spirit against the whole musculature of those times. For it took place in the middle of that sick century of which the present decade...
...Yorker found British character wondrously salted away in the diary of a patrol-boat captain. The captain was dead: he had "copped it in a fight with some motor torpedo boats. A one-pound shell took half of his head off." But he had left his immortally mortal diary behind...
...Carpenter" that goes: "Four other oysters followed them, and yet another four; and thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more--all hopping through the frothy waves, and scrambling to the shore." This particular oyster tastes a little different from "Night Train," "Man Hunt," "Mortal Storm," and "Confessions of a You-Know-What Spy," but it is unmistakably of the same brand of sea food...
...reason and a great reason for this incoherence-namely, England's experience with the Dominions. By the Statute of Westminster in 1931, Great Britain released the Dominions from virtually all rule by London. Thus, in 1939, none, of the Dominions was bound to join Great Britain in her mortal struggle. And within a few days all of them had joined her. Eire remained aloof. Apparently, when Great Britain declared war on Germany, neither the Government nor the people felt any certainty that the Dominions would come in. The fact that they did join, and the fact that they have...
...found the right answer to the big question: Whose ocean is the Atlantic? Nazi submarines still poked in past the screening patrol of warships and airplanes, still ripped great mortal holes in precious U.S. merchant hulls...