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...Anglophobic Colonel McCormick occasionally lapses into Briticisms (torch for flashlight)-a relic of several years in English schools...
...trio was broken up for five days. The Japs locked Comptroller Bowen in a bamboo cage not wide or long enough to lie down in while they questioned, threatened and kicked him (they thought he could tell them where the medical college had hidden its famed archeological relic, the bones of Peiping Man, presumably so they could present them to the Emperor. Bowen did not know...
...somewhat incredulous mother washed Pierrette's hands. Thereupon St. Francis reappeared. He told Pierrette that she should not have washed. So she touched St. Francis again. This time she simply wiped her hands on a cloth. Henceforth, the saint told her everything she touch would become a sacred relic. After that, said Pierrette, the vision of St. Francis appeared to her about twice a week, sometimes in her home and sometimes at a rock outside the town...
London's red-brick Church House, a relic of Queen Victoria's jubilee and once a haven for the bombed-out House of Commons, was being readied for another transient tenant...
...specifically rejects the old doctrines that 1) heads of states are immune, and 2) their subordinates are immune because they merely obeyed orders. Said Jackson: "There is more than a suspicion that this idea [of immunity] is a relic of the doctrine of the divine right of kings. ... We do not accept the paradox that legal responsibility should be the least where power is the greatest." Jackson fell back on Britain's 17th Century jurist, Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, and his declaration to King James I that a king is "under...