Word: proverbes
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...most, to edge away a little, "to break down"-in the words of another lay appeal-"the identification between the sword and the cross." The more liberal were pressing the church to stand more boldly for change in Franco's unhappy Spain, quoting a private proverb of the Spanish peasant: "We Spaniards are always at the back of the priest with a candle...
...past, the Communists dealt with such countries only through the apparatus of subversion-organizing cells, fomenting strikes, infiltrating fronts, subverting governments. But now new governments are taking power in these places, which are primarily anticolonialist. They look about in the spirit of the Arab proverb: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
...woman to any office, the United party put up a slate of seven of them, recruited women volunteers to ring doorbells, pilot sound trucks up and down the streets, and haul voters to the polls in cars and station wagons. Mrs. Betty Kalmes, 34, echoed an old Chinese proverb:-"We decided it was better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness...
...goes an old proverb often quoted by David Burpee, 67, president and proprietor of the W. Atlee Burpee Co., the world's largest mail-order seed house. To spread the joys of gardening, Burpee each year mails out 4,000,000 copies of his catalogues, which bloom with richly flowered prose, amaze with promises of something "never before seen in asters," and unfold the mysteries of celtuce (a celery-lettuce combination) and midget watermelon...
...Medical International Cooperation), issued a glowing report that the program is now rolling strong in ten countries: "Local governments put up the hospitals and we are simply the people who run them." Asked about recent criticism that he is a publicity seeker, Dr. Tom quoted from "an old Chinese proverb": "When one lift head above crowd, bound to receive rotten fruit." Then Tom Dooley entered a Manhattan hospital to continue his own personal fight against disease, got a complete checkup on his progress since removal of a chest cancer last summer. His prognosis will be reported to him soon...