Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soul's Patience. Rome was still 78 miles away, not much nearer than it was a month ago. Once Americans and British had hoped to be in the capital by Christmas ; now they saw only many bitter days ahead. The Nazi press twitted the Allies on faulty generalship, on lost "opportunity" that will "never return...
...presentation ceremonies had been planned with delicate subtlety. When Chiang arrived, the sponsors of the occasion led him into the adjoining room and offered him 25 minutes of solitude 'to contemplate his soul...
...Responsible : "What he does today will become an example for those in the generations to follow. . . . When the petty politicians join hands to defame or injure him, his life may be threatened, but the course of his conduct may not be changed. Although he lives in danger, his soul remains his own, and even then he does not forget the sufferings of the people...
...Chinese silk and colored and varied as the hills of his native northeast, was ripped to shreds. The varied meanings summed up in the Chinese term li-a concept which in government meant order, in social life politeness and good manners, and, deeper than these, "the harmony in the soul which prompts action in accordance with true natural instincts"-were rendered by militant English missionaries as "propriety...
...present century is to be the Century of the Common Man. We are all of us to go down on our knees . . . and worship the Common Man. . . . Well, I am an old man, and old men are not ready converts to new religions. This one does not stir my soul.... I like to think that on the morning of January the first, in the year 2000, mankind will be free to . . . rise from its knees and look about it for some other, and perhaps more rational, form of faith. I like also to think that ... in the great pale platitude...