Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself on the way home. He is infuriated if anyone suggests that his health is delicate. He has high blood pressure, but claims to enjoy it. He views most of his in-laws with tolerance, but would not live with any of his descendants for a prophet's ransom...
...Record. The first Teutonic conqueror of Rome was the ferocious Alaric. In August 410, he and his horde of Goths and Huns stood before the city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged...
...hross-a cat-whiskered cross between a snake, a seal and a stoat. It was just as much of a shock for the hross to meet a hmãn. Fortunately, they were both hnau (thinking animals) and after jointly slaying a hnakra, a jabberwockative monster, the hross made Ransom his blood hnakrapunt...
...first Ransom ignored the summons of the invisible Oyarsa. But when at length they "met," Ransom found the god far from terrible. Oyarsa explained that eons ago Thulcandra, the earth, had been taken over by a satanic eldil with Hitleresque ambitions and had since lost touch with the rest of the solar system. Consequently hmãn had lost the virtues of the other inhabited planets - the ability of hrossa, séroni and pfifltriggi to live happily together, each contributing his special mite to the common good. Hmãn had also lost his willingness to welcome death...
...Oyarsa put the three visitors back into their space ship. The séroni supplied air for a 90-day trip. Ransom returned to Thulcandra to take up his task of converting humans "from the conception of Space to the conception of Heaven," which, he felt, would prove quite a hmãn-size...