Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approved by Pius XII several months ago showed the Pope standing in an attitude of prayer amid the ruins caused by the first U.S. bombing of Rome last July. The old medal will be melted down, a new design drawn. Rumored theme: the Pope depicted as the protector and savior of Rome...
...international conferences and congresses . . . Argentina [dramatized] within Latin America her role of savior. She had prominence on account of greater wealth; her prosperous state allowed her to approach the smaller republics with diplomatic offers of guidance and help...
Time, moreover, is our savior as well as our destroyer. It is the air we must breathe, the lens through which we perceive timelessness, through which we become conscious...
...Eloquent Savior. By the third day, a Government crisis was just around the corner. Some M.P.s thought that Winston Churchill, sick abed with a cold and fever, would have to appear to save his Government. But a Laborite saved the day: wiry, grey-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison actually made no more concessions than Sir John or Sir Kingsley had made, but he stated the Government case with eloquent common sense. Morrison's clincher: Out of 23 Beveridge proposals, the Government had rejected only one (conversion of industrial insurance from a private to a public function); of the remaining...
...Savior of Stalingrad and commander in chief of the armies threatening the German flank in the Caucasus from the northeast is Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, 50. Stocky, brown-haired, he was born in the Ukraine, left a farm to join the Czarist army in 1913. After the peace he organized guerrilla bands to fight the Germans in the Ukraine, served during the Civil War as a cavalry officer under Semion Budenny. When the Germans invaded Russia, Yeremenko assumed command of an army west of Moscow, played a leading role in the defense of the capital, shifted to Stalingrad when...