Word: savioring
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...reported Professor Highet's remarks in the Nov. 12 issue . . . Mr. Highet regards Caesar as "a crook and a traitor" because he believes in political liberty and dreads the appearance in this country of a man of Caesar's intelligence and ambition. Dante regarded Caesar as the savior of the temporal world and the human counterpart of the divine Christ, because Dante believed in a world state, abhorred the misery caused by international wars, and had himself experienced the brutal anarchy of the Italian democracies...
...this first volume of his memoirs. He tells, in a style as stiff and formal as the old Hoover collar and without much seeming premonition of the momentous events still before him, of his first 45 years. They were the years when he was called The Great Engineer and savior of the hungry-and years of travel, discoveries, successes and adventures. Some future biographer may make a better story of it all, but Autobiographer Hoover has a pretty good memory for significant detail...
...London, a group of prominent clergy and laymen proposed that St. George's Church in Gravesend, where Pocahontas, wife of John Rolfe and savior of Captain John Smith, has been buried since 1617, be dedicated as a shrine to Christian unity. Said the London Times: "One who tried to reconcile her own primitive American people with the invading white men is perhaps no bad patroness for a church dedicated ... to the idea of unity-unity both of the American and British nations and of the Christian churches. It should be a matter of pride to see that the appeal...
...initials, as in all Russian planes, come from the designer's name). Son of a rabbi, he learned his trade for ten years, got his big chance after the late '30s purges, finally hit pay dirt in 1943 with his light, highly maneuverable LA5 ("The wooden savior of Stalingrad"). Now working on long-range, single-jet escort fighters (LA-17) and twin-jet night fighters...
...cliff and tampers with the brakes on her car, she concludes that he is. However, sturdy William Lundigan, a new-found ally, won't believe her until the last minute, which provides a handy excuse for postponing the moment when Valentina can safely fall into her savior's arms...