Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British missionaries in Ireland during the famine of 1847 who bought Catholic souls, with soup. They are all metiches - people who stick their noses into other people's business. "In the U.S. you have 80 million people who profess no religion at all. If the Protestants want to save souls, why don't they do it in the U.S. instead of Mexico, which has been solidly Catholic for 400 years...
Young or old, the GARsters had strong opinions on the state of the union which they helped save. Said Osborn: "Brother, there's not a free man in this country." Said Hiram R. Gale, 99, who flew in from Seattle: "There's too much selfishness and dishonesty...
...joined a group of Left Bank surrealists. He was tall and thin; his friends said he had the face of a "perverse angel." He wrote poems which nobody understood. He lived by stealing. After the German invasion, François' father, who had turned collaborationist in order to save his business, persuaded his son to write for a Nazi publishing enterprise at 10,000 francs a month. After eight months, François quit...
...that [all listeners] agree 100% with the message . . . but we can lead them. . .at least to feel 1% or 2% like Catholics. . . . No one . . . maintains that we can save souls through music or continuity, but it certainly looks as if they help...
They ran him as a dummy to split the cocklebur vote for the opposing faction; but Willie didn't know this. Willie thought the Lord was calling him to save the state and so did his wife, Lucy, who had been a schoolteacher and didn't favor drinking. Willie was pure and believed in his backers. He believed in the people, who repaid his faith by dozing through his well-reasoned speeches. Then Willie found out that he had been a sap and a sucker...