Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking a rest cure at some stodgy, back-country hot springs. He made no speeches at all; when he sat down to listen to convention oratory, he did so with the resigned air of a man lowering himself into a mud bath for the good of his soul and his sweat glands...
...York (in which all too many New Yorkers could recognize themselves): "The lonely heart of man cannot come home there. It [New York] is filled with people who, after three quick drinks, begin to dream of somewhere else ... [It is] the expression perhaps of some titanic strain in the soul of modern man, making him feel uneasy when he remembers the gods...
...This is not a political crisis," he declared, "It is a crisis for our consciences." Out of 1,166 Belgian traitors sentenced to death since the liberation, 232 had already been shot. Struye (himself a Resistance hero) had personally sent 107 to their death. Said he: "On my soul and conscience, I declare that those 107 deserved supreme punishment." Now he thought it was time to slow down. Spaak, just back from the U.N. in Paris, agreed. "Yes," he declared, "this government is contemplating a policy of mercy...
...Luis to Eustachio when he heard his story, "if you must kneel, there is nothing to stop me from kneeling too." A cousin of Muñoz urged him to pay Eustachio for the two chickens he had sold. Said Don Luis: "When a man gives you his soul, do you give him change...
...traced back into the earliest records of Christianity, but no reference to it appears in canonical scripture. Accepting the apocryphal account of the event as genuine, Gregory of Tours (538-593) tells that, as the apostles were watching round the dying Mary, Jesus appeared with angels and committed the soul of His mother to the Archangel Michael. Next day, as the body was being carried to the grave, He appeared again and carried it in a cloud to Heaven...