Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise words save a nation? Could one man resolve the quarrel between free-enterprisers and the advocates of a planned economy? This week an elder statesman tried. Said 75-year-old Bernard Baruch, before the House Banking & Currency Committee...
...Tokyo last week Mrs. Fujiko Homma, wife of Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, knew that she would soon be a widow. She had fought with quiet tenacity to save the General's life, had broken an ancient Japanese custom-according to which wives should be seen, not heard-by appearing in court and giving a newspaper interview in her husband's defense. With the submissive dignity of a Japanese lady, she related that she was his second wife, that she had borne him two children -a girl, now 18, and a boy now 16, both now attending school...
...Save France! Up from the vernal south the gold-and-plaster Virgin moved triumphantly. Twentieth-Century France hailed the religious procession, a war-delayed commemoration of the Virgin's 1,300th anniversary. The faithful were as reverent now as on that miraculous Sunday in 638 when the fishermen of Boulogne found the Virgin, then a prow on an unmanned ship that sailed to anchor despite the harbor's shoals. They were as ardent now as when mighty Charlemagne, or splendid Francis I, or Sun King Louis XIV made pilgrimage to her shrine...
...Nice, the Virgin passed through a shower of mimosa, roses and carnations. In Antibes, barefoot sailors escorted her to the parish church. Everywhere provincial roads resounded with the prayers of kneeling suppliants: "Virgin, our hope, save France. . . ." And now, borne forward on a peasant's cart by sweating seminarists, the Virgin of Boulogne came to the Red Belt barricades...
Mute as a Carp. One sunny summer morning in his Alsace home, he resolved to seek the meaning in the words of Jesus: "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." A Paris missionary magazine turned his mind to Africa...