Word: sorrowings
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...Pope also had a word for those who fear that analgesia in childbirth is inconsistent with the biblical "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children." Painkilling in labor, said the Pontiff, is an honest, moral endeavor, "so long as no danger ... results for either mother or infant, and so long as the tender sentiments of parenthood are neither diminished nor destroyed...
...Affricans composed a blunt letter to Don Luciano: "It is with the greatest sorrow that we learn of your nomination as the parish priest of Affrico . . ." They sent a delegation to him, and another to the Catholic authorities in Bologna. On their weather-beaten, 17th Century church and on the rocky mountain road they put up big signs: "Affrico wants Don Giorgio . . . Don Giorgio, come back to your parish." Said a burly peasant: "If Don Giorgio doesn't come back, the carabinieri had better get themselves a barracks up here...
...China's farmers, the time of the annual shui tsai (water calamity) had come again. The muddy Yangtze, gorged with weeks of heavy rains, was spreading over more than 1,000 miles of south central China's rice bowl. To the north, "China's Sorrow," the great Yellow River, raced angrily over the broad Shantung flatlands...
...propagandist formerly in Mussolini's service, who, after the Duce's fall, made a living as a messenger boy and traveling salesman. A ferret-like little man, he stood behind the microphone while the delegates cheered. Said he: "I stand at attention before the legion of sorrow." He continued: "They say we are sentimentalists, that we long for a past which died with one man. But we are like the apostles who gained their faith through the martyrdom of Christ...
Future Dreams. The legion of sorrow became bored. The youngsters churned aimlessly around the lobby. Whenever the Duce's name was mentioned, their eyes lit up. A young man with a slight lisp boasted: "We are getting bigger and stronger. Last month we beat up 400 leftist bastards and put 17 in the hospital...