Word: saint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks he had been living in the tranquil priory of Saint-Francois in Nice. Then one morning last week, police swooped down and arrested Paul Touvier, 74, the intelligence chief of the Lyons militia during the Nazi Occupation. Twice after World War II, Touvier was sentenced to death for collaborating with the Nazis and torturing and executing French Resistance members. He escaped and stayed hidden until the statute of limitations expired in 1967. In 1971 Touvier received a presidential pardon. Two years later Touvier was charged again, this time with crimes against humanity, to which the statute does not apply...
...Touvier case has raised embarrassing questions. Police followed his trail through several Catholic monasteries. Saint-Francois is run by right- wing followers of Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre, the schismatic bishop excommunicated last year. Asked Richard Wertenschlag, Grand Rabbi of Lyons: "How could ecclesiastical institutions give cover to one who committed crimes against humanity...
...will now be spoken in the same breath as other quoting greats such as Lene Falape, the little known muse of Western Samoa and Parla Augusta Ordunia, patron saint of Fiji," Polsky said. "This year has been like a fairy tale. First the Nobel Peace Prize, then the national championship, and finally this highly coveted prize. In a nutshell, I truly feel marvelous...
...collective psyche of the nation. Ask any Frenchman to free-associate: he automatically recites, "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite." Then comes a torrent of violent images. Heads on pikes. Hungry mobs storming Versailles. Women knitting and jeering in front of the scaffold. Marat murdered in his bath. The zealous Saint-Just railing, "There is no liberty for the enemies of liberty!" And the battalions of Marseilles singing the nation's new anthem: "May the blood of the impure soak our fields...
...varsity hockey team raised its rhubarb and whipped the Saints of St. Lawrence, 5-1, with a powerful cannon-ball offense. The profligate Saint fans yelled assorted profanities and taunted the varsity with some malicious intent before Ed Presz advanced to the goal and proceeded to score a goal of ethereal beauty in the opening minutes of this pugilistic contest...