Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted to tell the reporter something that would be good for his soul, he sputtered. It is a pity that you columnists and reporters can't understand the ideas of two intellectually honest men when they meet. The President told reporters that General MacArthur is loyal to the nation's foreign policy, and the President wished a lot of your papers were. There was no disagreement between General MacArthur and himself. There was noth ing to be settled about Formosa...
...seemed even more inscrutable in 1950. Said Senatorial Candidate D. Worth Clark of Idaho: "I've never seen a year when it was so difficult to tell what the voters have on their minds." An Indiana politician admitted candidly: "Hell, there's not a single soul in the state who can tell whether it's going to be a rout or a close election, let alone tell...
Britain's old King Coel, a Roman puppet of the 3rd Century, may have been a merry old soul, but his daughter Helena was a sober young gentlewoman. She made a proper marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted...
Elizabeth Rowan knew how to love. She loved everyone simply for what he was: her husband for a cold, frightened man who dared not risk feeling much for anyone, her sister for a soul-sick shrew who could not control her bad feeling for everyone, her priest for a muddled half-innocent who did not yet know what he really felt about anything except religion. Almost all the people Elizabeth knew dreaded her love as much as they wanted it. Her husband once stormed at her: "I know there are times when it's worse than hating to love...
...Flight to Arras). He was that rare 20th Century blend, a courageous man of action whose deepest values were spiritual. On his long airmail flights over desert and ocean, and on military missions over doomed France in 1940, his brooding imagination conceived a vision of life in which God, soul and the brotherhood of man shone through and outweighed all commonplace striving...