Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Jeanne de Valois was never canonized. Her "process," begun in 1775, was delayed first by unusual strictness on the part of the Congregation of Rites, then by the French Revolution (no French bishop dared offend Napoleon by pushing the sainthood of a member of the old regime). In 1905, when the process was finally resumed, authorities insisted that at least one more miracle would be necessary. In 1932 occurred what was regarded as an authentic miracle: French Nun Marta Fourrier, apparently on the verge of death from a duodenal ulcer, was suddenly cured when someone at her bedside called...
...Ocean. "The air," wrote Sir George Cayley, an 18th Century plane designer (who never got off the ground), "is an uninterrupted, navigable ocean that comes to the threshold of every man's door." It remained for Trippe to use the air to build an empire...
...Sometimes, when crossed in an argument, he will seem to fumble for words, with a disarming, apologetic smile, a brown-eyed stare, and an Oh-gosh stammer. "That's the time to look out," says a man who has been fencing with him for years. "He's never fumbling for ideas; his mind simply outruns his tongue...
...Captain. Though Trippe is surrounded by crack engineers, and financial and diplomatic experts, he runs Pan Am as a one-man show-and no one ever forgets it. His tight-fisted rule has been shaken more than once, but never broken...
...college, he helped organize Colonial Air Transport, which won the first U.S. airmail contract. But when he daringly proposed that little Colonial's Boston-New York route be stretched all the way to Florida, his staid New England backers were alarmed. Trippe pulled out, having learned a lesson: never to take a board of directors into his confidence until his plans were...