Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friendlier All the Time." "This was a great day for the advance of the Gospel of Christ in Ecuador," Missionary Peter Fleming wrote joyfully that night in his diary. "Ed was at one end of the beach, Jim Elliot at the other, and Roger Youderian, Nat Saint and I were in the center. From time to time we shouted words of Auca. Suddenly, we heard a loud masculine voice from the other side of the river, and three Aucas appeared. Two women and one man waved to us from the opposite riverbank . . . and thus occurred the contact for which...
Last week they went back to the same strand to develop the contact. Saint reported their progress by radio to the missionaries' wives at their base camp, Shell Mera. "Ah," he said with satisfaction, "here come some Aucas we haven't seen before. I'll call you back at 4 o'clock." But 4 o'clock brought silence...
...real man to live it. It is not a matter of lust. To take plural wives, a man doubles, triples or quadruples his responsibilities. He has more problems to solve. He must create a home in which harmony and selflessness prevail. He must provide. And it takes a real saint of a woman. She must overcome human weaknesses. In the polygamous home, there can be no jealousy, no selfishness. The whole family must live for the family, not for individuals. The children are finer. They never acquire the pettiness of other children. They live in a home where...
...Struggle: Back in Saint-Ceré the Poujades set up a small book-and-stationery shop, scraped along on sales of tourist postcards. Elected to municipal council on a Gaullist ticket, Poujade developed a gift for homespun speechmaking...
...Movement: In July 1953, some 30 Saint-Ceré merchants, notified that the tax inspector was about to examine their books, appealed to Councilor Poujade, who formed a committee that threw out the tax inspectors, later organized resistance against the police. ("I cheat on my taxes. I always have. I couldn't get by otherwise.") Poujade formed the Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, which quickly spread throughout France. In March last year, heading a national movement of 800,000 supporters, he called a taxpayers' strike, took his fight for fiscal reform to the National Assembly...