Word: shepherd
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...musical Busches got their bent from their father, a German shepherd who became a violinist and a violin-maker. He started Fritz at the piano and Adolf on a violin when each was four. "We made music all day, from eight in the morning until midnight," says Fritz. Papa Busch concluded proudly that both Fritz and Adolf had perfect pitch when they identified a locomotive's whistle as F sharp...
...Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother." The onetime grocer's boy and champion horseshoe pitcher, now the able and beloved shepherd of Catholicism's richest archdiocese, is one of Pius XII's closest friends, served under him in Rome. He may become Vatican Secretary of State...
Vouchsafe, oh Lord, our God, that . . . what Thou hast promised would one day occur, may come to pass in our time, namely, that there be but one flock and one shepherd...
...ideal of "one flock and one shepherd" remained an ideal; the scandalous reality of a divided Christendom remained too. The ideal was reasserted by Pope Pius, in a letter to the Archbishop of Trent on the quadricentennial of the Council...
...dogs in service, the Army took 19,000. More than half saw active service-140 as mine-detecting dogs, 151 as messengers, 268 as sleigh dogs, 541 as scouts, and more than 9,000 as sentries. Of the 15 breeds originally enlisted, German shepherds, Belgian sheep dogs, farm collies, Doberman pinschers and schnauzers turned out to be most satisfactory. Best all-around breed was the German shepherd...