Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight for independence that focused Nehru's talents and made him a man of destiny. Through it, he discovered peasant India and the fact that, somehow or other, he could manipulate its soul. And it was primarily for this skill that Gandhi, who may have been a saint but was above all a shrewd politician, named Nehru heir to the leadership of India...
Streamlined as they were, the 58 aircraft gathered outside the little Burgundy village of Saint-Yan (pop. 859) seemed remnants of an earlier era-a time when flying was still for the birds or for men who wished to emulate them. No stub-winged jets waited to scream aloft, riding the thrust of a man-made thunderclap. These were sleek sailplanes, slim-winged, frail, and built to soar on the least suspicion of a breeze. Their pilots had come from 25 countries for the fifth postwar international gliding championships...
...Ruddy Machine. When it came to translating such complex matters into the precise science of soaring, no man at Saint-Yan could compare with a thin, grave U.S. meteorologist named Paul B. MacCready Jr. "He's a ruddy machine," complained one Englishmen. "He's a sorcerer," whispered a Frenchman. Said a more practical American: "He's a genius...
...were others who thought his job in Morocco was to make a peace possible−but then, Alphonse Juin was always a man of stormy views. The son of a French policeman in Algeria, Soldier Juin followed his profession with vigorous abandon from the moment of his graduation from Saint Cyr, declaring war on virtually everybody who opposed him. Cleaving first to Pétain after the fall of France in World War II, he later switched to the Allied side and became the able battlefield commander of the Free French forces in Italy. As the only living Marshal...
Life Is Death. Wilson's invisible man, the Outsider, may be described as a blend of existentialist hero, religious man without God, and prophet or saint-in-embryo. His dilemma might be described as that of a man living under the conviction of sin who cannot accept traditional Christianity. In the lines of Eliot's Ash Wednesday...