Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Ike's deputy, General Ben, who has a passion for soldierly discipline, is expected to pass "the word" down through the command. Many soldiers were beginning to think it was about time: there were 18,000 AWOLs in ETO last week. Ben Lear will have no part in General Lee's second job: "Courthouse" will go on being boss of supply and service forces...
...late Tsar Boris had also been interested in technology-he had a passion for driving locomotives (see cut). The People's Court learned that he had also been a mystic. Yordan Lutcheff, a royal councilor who was also on trial, reported that Boris had been a member of the secret sun-worshipping sect of Dunovists. Founded 25 years ago by a Professor Dunov, who died in Sofia last week, the sect numbers some 700 men & women. Each summer the Dunovists climb Mount Musala, Bulgaria's highest mountain, in order to be nearer the sun. They also chant hymns...
...know that dreams and passion turned devote...
...eldest, is merely waiting for a proposal, which at length she gets. Esther (Judy Garland) is tremulously interested in the shy basketball player (Tom Drake) next door. Agnes (Joan Carroll) is still chiefly interested in things like swimming and hunting knives. Tootie (Margaret O'Brien) has a passion for letting her dolls die off so that she can bury them in the backyard...
...seven-league-boot habits of scholarship and composition, Will Durant is a master of synthesis arid luminous narrative. Caesar and Christ, third volume of the monumental Story of Civilization which he expects to finish by 1955 (already published: Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece), may lack moral passion. But as clear exposition of an immensely complicated story, it is magnificent...