Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately after the final judgment as to Christ's guilt, Roman soldiers ordered a smith to forge four nails for the crucifixion, one for each hand and foot...
...forged the first and second nails, the smith brooded on the fact that a truth-loving and kind man, who had done no wrong known to anyone, was to be nailed to the cross. He finished the third nail and then threw down his tongs...
...soldiers arrived, demanded the four nails, and were given only three. The smith calmly told them he had no materials for the fourth nail, at which the soldiers screamed "tsigane" (meaning liar) and the family was ordered to leave the town. Stones were hurled at them as they went from village to village, and they wandered over the face of the earth forever...
After a seven-day flying trip to Greece, ex-OSS General William J. Donovan announced that the Greek "authorities are handling the case satisfactorily." Some U.S. newsmen, in Greece when George Polk died, were not so sure. Neither was CBS. Three top CBS staffers (Edward R. Murrow, Howard K. Smith and Don Hollenbeck) broadcast a progress report on an independent investigation now being conducted by two CBS legmen...
Concludes CBS's Smith: "There is no doubt that the murder .. . was a cold, deliberate political demonstration, planned to be spectacular, planned to intimidate. If the murderers are not discovered, an invisible but inevitable pressure of intimidation will rest on every American correspondent abroad." But the Greek police last week were pursuing another line of inquiry less likely to embarrass higher-ups. Their official theory: George Polk had been killed because of something in his "personal life...