Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immigration officials went about their work ostentatiously: in the large, bustling detail which boarded the Batory at Pier 88 on Manhattan's North River were 30 armed border patrolmen rushed from the Canadian border. With a smug smile, the Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, accepted an order to stay aboard and keep his crew there until the Batory departed. Four of his crew were taken ashore briefly and questioned...
...huddled in eager groups in cafes and lounges, heads thrust forward in lively argument, eyes shining in anticipation of a great crusade. Gone are the more recent days when, flushed with new power, they sank into easy chairs and sprawled in happy discussion, secure in the knowledge that an order to their parliamentary steamroller would change the face of Britain. Today's delegates are bewildered, disappointed and fearful. The eager fire has died. The smooth confidence has disappeared. In the hotel lounge, a party leader said, 'Yes, perhaps we are facing the great disillusion...
...mihi animas [give me souls]," was the prayer of bearded, stern-faced St. Francis Xavier, greatest missionary of the Roman Catholic Church since Apostolic times. One of the first Jesuits, who helped St. Ignatius Loyola found the order, Francis Xavier journeyed to India .and then to the Far East in his historic quest for converts. On Aug. 15, 1549, the astonished farmers and fishermen of Japan first saw his black-clad figure. For more than two years thereafter, Francis Xavier moved tirelessly among the Japanese, of whom he wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds...
Tangible Reminder. The right arm of St. Francis Xavier, flown from Rome by the Jesuit Order for the occasion, was severed at the elbow in 1614 and brought to Rome as a relic. The saint's body rests on the tiny Portuguese-Indian island of Goa, which had been his mission headquarters. It is exposed for public veneration once every ten years...
...Mirror turned its front page right-side-up, dropped most of its color, shortened and sharpened its stories, and started screaming like a tabloid. Obedient to Publisher Pinkley's order to "local 'em to death," it began to play up circulation-catching sex, crime and crusading stories with a Los Angeles angle. The Mirror offered $100,000 in rewards to readers who helped solve 20 local murders, exposed a baby-adoption racket, and pursued Rita & Aly from continent to continent with the determined zest of a private eye on a fat expense account. But the tabloid...