Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time and again Panayiota traveled to the Shatis home, begging for the return of Blue Eyes in exchange for the dark boy. But Mrs. Shatis insisted Blue Eyes was hers-she wanted no part of the dark little tyke who looked like all the other children on Cyprus...
...freedom "mumbo jumbo," said that "a piece of rubber hose is at times worth ten years of the new [educational] psychology." He had come to Fordham in the days of its great mid '30s football teams, had taken a wartime opportunity to halt football altogether, allowed it to return (in 1946) on only a very chastened scale. Said Gannon: "We want to get [it] off the vaudeville stage and . . . back to the campus...
Bishop Wilson was happy over this return to the Anglican fold, but added: "This is nothing so unusual. In my own diocese alone, we have several Roman priests who have come over to us. But it is not our habit to advertise the conversion of a man from Rome to our faith. It is not our way of doing things...
Such an uneasy fugitive from catastrophe is Shmul Weinstock, hero of London physician Alex Comfort's tight little novel, On This Side Nothing. In dry, sparse sentences Weinstock tells the story of his return to his native North African city the night before its ghetto is cordoned off by the Germans. His narrative, laconic and unsentimental, suggests the quality of life during a war: its urgency and tension, its underside of absurdity...
Weinstock's test came when he caught a German deserter slipping into a ghetto tunnel. Should he return the soldier to the Germans or hand him over to the Jewish leader, to certain death in either case? Or should he save the deserter's skin? Weinstock stuck by his belief in the immediate human act; he hid the soldier. Later, when the British came, some former concentration-camp prisoners recognized the German deserter as a guard who had shot helpless men. They killed...