Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fledgling Lecoeur, 39 years old, came a summons. Last week, when the Thorez plane took off, it carried an extra passenger. Ruddy-faced Auguste Lecoeur was off to Moscow for the soul-searing and trial by fire that precedes leadership of Communism's fifth column in France...
...Atlanta, Evangelist Billy Graham (TIME, Nov. 14, 1949 et seq.) was well under way with a soul-saving campaign in the Ponce de Leon ballpark fitted out to accommodate more than 20,000 people. With flashing eyes and flailing arms, the well-dressed young (32) successor to Billy Sunday was wringing fervent amens and penitence from his audience night after night. Mankind now stands on the brink of destruction, he warned his listeners. "Unless God sends a great awakening to the world, my two little girls will never see high school...
Young Boswell was by turn gay and uncontrollably depressed (a brother and daughter went insane). He feared the dark, was mortally afraid of ghosts and shifted from uneasy lack of confidence to unattractive smugness. "Upon my soul," he wrote of himself, "not a bad specimen of a man ... I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind. But I am much afraid that this blossom will never swell into fruit...
...gate to St. Peter's, above a colorful sea of bishops' miters and upturned faces, the Pope receives the formal request of the College of Cardinals that the dogma be proclaimed. After a prayer, the Pope reads the bull† of proclamation: ". . . The presence of Mary in soul and body in Heaven is a God-revealed truth . . . Hence if anyone deliberately presumes to think otherwise, let him know that in his judgment he stands condemned, has suffered shipwreck in faith and has separated himself from the Church's unity...
...taken in tow by a ravenous old contessa who supplies her with "beautiful" young men as escorts. Mrs. Stone, good American that she is, pays them as expected but politely declines their ultimate services. But when she meets Paolo, a gigolo with the face of an angel and the soul of a pig, she falls hard...