Word: reborning
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...after the 1937 strike was settled, Charley changed. To the Embarcadero's profane amazement, he became a follower of Father Divine. He ate a chicken dinner, got his soul shampooed and his past washed away, and was reborn as Brother True Knowledge. His wife was reborn, too. She was christened True Obedience and became his sister. When they moved into Father Divine's "Peace Mission" in the Negro section of Oakland, he slept in the men's dormitory, and True Obedience in the women's quarters upstairs...
Twelve months ago, in a dry-cold span of four days, the College was reborn. Better than 1300 men filed, passively for the most part--for they were predominantly veterans and long since line-calloused--through Memorial Hall. In University Hall the 1300 became holes in a card, names which doubled the population of the College. Four months later 900, and five months ago another 2500, worried, distended, made sweat the Administration...
...Gaulle feared that one side or the other of the divided world would try to utilize reborn Germany against the other. "[Germany] must be so placed that she may not become either tempter or tempted. If not, woe once more to the sons and daughters...
...remember all too vividly the soul-searchings and fears of failure as we worked a new machine for you, Inch, with new parts. Then there was a walk in the dawn, surrounded by fuzzy outlines colored with a pink glow which brightened until it was easy to read your reborn writing by the light in the sky. And we catch one picture that we will never forget, that will never be merged in a great mass of faces, impersonalized, romanticized, forgotten except in the abstract. It is a view, Inchball, of part of that which has made you, of those...
...life in the Jungle-the slums that lie back of Chicago's stockyards. It was his simple faith that if leaders of the fragmented sections of any U.S. community could be got to sit down together and talk or participate in common action, democracy would be reborn...