Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fundamentalist, was a proponent of the "Great Awakening." Prentice was at his best preaching sermons, which caused "A Young woman of about 14 years of Age...such wraking Horror and Distress about her soul, which she that was dropping into Hell, that she Cryed out at that rate she might be heard...
Everybody, including the grafting, remorseful basketball players, agreed on one point: it is wrong to dump games. The soul-searching went on from there...
...American before him, he has fallen in love with the Old World. To his French and Arab friends, who look upon Americans as Roman-style imperialists come to organize and barbarize their cultivated Greek-style world, Childress is "the nice American," a surprisingly sensitive soul...
...Emile Tracq, 46, who has sold travelers some 500 devils and statuettes modeled on his wife. He prefers the devils because "I can carve one in 50 hours. It takes much longer to do the Virgin or a saint." According to the village priest, Tracq's works "lack soul...
...badly anyway. Instead of retaliating by whittling the priest in Satan's arms, Tracq recently laid down his jackknife, took up the pen. Having the best handwriting in town, he landed the honorable post of secretary to the mayor. No one says the mayor's letters lack soul. Meanwhile the priest is organizing whittling classes for the village's few young boys. They will not be taught to carve devils...