Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fagged with our contemporary writing which goes on documenting the same loneliness and much the same defeat," Miller said he wants to consider the question whether a man can mature to the point where he knows that "there are compromises which he cannot make without the loss of his soul...
...water for long periods at a time. According to one admirer, Narayan even mastered the trick of levitation, and once flew for three miles through a Nepalese jungle. In the same jungle Narayan had himself buried alive for 24 hours, and survived to tell newsmen of the milky white "soul light" that had surrounded and protected him through the ordeal...
...normal child. In moments of optimism, his father, M. Du Chaillu, saw no reason why Edmond should not take up law, for instance. But even as a youngster, Edmond developed some disturbing manners-such as fetching the daily paper between his teeth. He had, it seemed, "the soul of a man," but he was dogged by what his father called "canine predestination...
...Flynn, the second witness against Conant, told the committee that in Germany, "where the agents of every important State are gathered, and where all sorts of social philosophers are scheming for the soul of Germany . . . (America needs) . . . as our representative some stout-hearted pragmatic American who believes in the American system, and not an agreeable philosopher who is talking about making over the American system...
...bishop was powerless, for the rector had committed no crime, and he was conducting the services acceptably. Stuck with their rector, the flock retaliated by refusing to go to church. Some went to other Anglican churches; others drifted off to Warleggon's Methodist chapel. After 1935, not a soul among Warleggon's parishioners entered the church for Sunday services again...