Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday in 1905, two young Sorbonne students climbed hand in hand up the long, steep stairs to Paris' Sacré Coeur. They knocked at a door which was opened by a strange, shabby old man with a walrus mustache. Young Protestant Jacques Maritain and his Jewish wife Rai'ssa had come to old Roman Catholic Leon Bloy for help. The Maritains were heavyhearted with questions, and they believed that Bloy, the outcast scourge of complacent Christianity (TIME, April 14, 1947), might have some answers...
...would take a great deal more than the courage of hungry Berliners to keep Berlin's price too steep for Soviet pockets. It would take the steadiness and quiet resolution of the American military commander (to date, exemplary). It would take the effort of countless lesser officials who, despite the vagaries of American policy, continue their little-publicized work of rebuilding Berlin trade unions, newspapers, subways. It would take, also, the resolution of thousands of American men & women who, despite their suburban comfort, belong to this same Berlin which is ringed by enough Soviet tanks and planes, thinly veiled...
Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with cash, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired...
...with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles-was Randolph McCoy's cabin. The land between was battleground...
Robin Hood's Bay, on the rocky Yorkshire coast, is an old fishing village isolated by sea and moor. Picturesque houses climb crazily up a steep cliff. Saint Stephen's Church, at the top of the cliff, is one of the centers of community life for most of the 800 villagers. There they go for a crowded weekly calendar of services, whist drives, community sings, jumble (rummage) sales and church dances. There, since 1944, tall, sturdy Rev. Arthur Patrick has presided over his flock. Until last month, few in Robin Hood's Bay knew what a blight...