Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prayers & Sculpture. The Sisterhood of St. Mary was formally organized in 1947 in Darmstadt, with nine members and a capital of 30 marks. "Stoves, beds and chairs had to be prayed for and mustered through faith," says Mother Basilea. Two solid weeks of prayer finally brought the housing authority around to granting them a room. Then they set about praying for furniture. "A broom was sent to us for which we had prayed for a week. A note was tied to it: 'The Lord insisted that I send you this. Did you really need...
...least 48 hours' notice before having company. She gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid breakfast as well as a thumping good lunch on the job, the same food the family eats-or better. The wise housewife watches her maid's health-and pays the bills -helps buy her clothes, listens to her love life and family problems. For those with couples in help...
Away from the Desk. No Marble Arch leftist, Frank Cousins is a solid and pragmatic unionist, convinced that his assignment is not to balance Britain's economy, but to fight for a better deal for his members. Catapulted into the key job of general secretary of Britain's biggest union 21 months ago by the sudden successive deaths of two oldtime platform stalwarts, Cousins is now shooting for national union leadership, a role that has not been filled since his old boss and idol, the late Ernest Bevin, built the T.W.U. and went on to become Labor...
...Greeks began making the vases in the 7th century B.C. with the figures painted in solid black on the reddish clay of the vase. Details were engraved on the black figures with a sharp instrument of some sort, and white and dark red were used as accessory colors. In about 530 B.C. the red-figure technique was introduced, with the background painted black and the figures left in the original reddish color of the vase. Painter and potter worked as a team. The potter threw his shape on the wheel and handed it over to the painter...
...woman with azure blue eyes, brown hair drawn taut in a bun, and a little-girl air of gravity. A passionately liberal Democrat, she is known as one of the shrewdest, scrappiest literary agents (annual income: about $30,000) in Manhattan, handling a stable of topflight authors, including rock-solid Republican James Gould Cozzens. Their childless marriage has been a remarkable success. While he stuck to his writing and made little money from it, she was the real breadwinner. Says Cozzens: "It could have been a humiliating situation, but I guess I had a certain native conceit and felt that...