Word: path
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...young Marymount instructor, Sister Elizabeth was assigned the task of maintaining the college's current events bulletin board. The daily headlines she tacked up became talismans on her private path toward pacifism. "By 1964 I was going to New York City once a month for some kind of meeting or demonstration," she recalls. In September of that year, Dan Berrigan came to Marymount to say Mass and speak; for Elizabeth, he was revelatory. "What Dan was saying very beautifully was what I had been thinking and never been able to articulate." She did not meet him until 1966, when...
Scared to Death. Within hours of the election, party paladins from both sides were beating a path to Palmer's door. D.F.L. Governor-elect Wendell Anderson flew to Duluth to offer his congratulations and brotherly advice. Outgoing G.O.P. Governor Harold LeVander was right behind him. Hubert Humphrey checked in with a phone call, as did a host of other D.F.L. members. The G.O.P. countered by flying Palmer to St. Paul for a meeting with the party's top legislators. It was all very flattering, but dismaying...
...Germany's das Reich panzer division raced up from southwest France toward Normandy to meet the invading Allies, two episodes of unspeakable savagery occurred in its path...
Granite Slabs. Wilson traces the path of the rise (see map) by such subtle evidence as heat flow in rocks, remains of ancient magnetic fields and the variations in the velocity of seismic waves under different parts of the West. He also points to much more conspicuous signs of its presence: the hot springs in California and Yellowstone National Park, the remnants of old volcanoes-Arizona's Kitt Peak, for example, and Crater Lake in Oregon-the upward tilt of the American plains as they stretch westward toward the Rockies and the shape of the mountains themselves. Unlike...
...Renaissance, the cherub's presence quickly succumbed. He became crossed with the amoretti, or baby cupids, of antiquity; the result, a tumbling, rosy piglet of an angel, did not (even in Rubens' hands) quite make up in charm what it had lost in austere dignity. The path to the winged brat on the Christmas card was open...