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...went to minister to the Tuareg, 900 miles south of Algiers. His parish covered 1,500,000 square miles of the Sahara. His parish house was a small mud hut in Tamanrasset, 400 miles from the nearest French outpost. His daily meal was a miserable date-and-barley stew. Within a year he translated the Gospels into Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg, writing with an ink made from charcoal and camel urine...
...opinion that supports sacrifices for preparedness reacts against civil liberties, for fear cannot draw careful lines. But if a choice must be made, Russia is still more dangerous to liberty than McCarthy and all his followers. Moreover, a number of social reforms--in housing, power, and health--have to stew while a defense establishment is kept up. But dollar for dollar it is worth it. For the temporary relief it would give them from anxicty and taxation, America and the West cannot afford to abandon the carefully planned policy of strength that is still the best hope for real peace...
...little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought many farmers in to town. Children, evacuated from Nice and Bordeaux, sat down to the midday meal with weekending parents and relatives. At the Hotel Milord (Léon Milord, Prop.), lamb stew, a specialty of the house, was being served with a light, dry wine. There was excitement in the air and a buzz of conversation around the tables that sunny Saturday in 1944: just four days earlier the Allies had landed in Normandy...
...breakfast the Borden family ate before Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and gave her parents 40 whacks: mutton stew or soup, sugar cookies and bananas...
...multitude of groups newly hatched expressly to gain clemency for a brace of convicted spies. On the other, and at this writing far ahead, are those who are seeking to solve the Far East problem by assigning blame for it. Their technique is to serve up a murky stew of half-truth and hindsight, then immerse a handful of Asia experts in it. Owen Lattimore is already up to his neck, and Service, Vincent, Clubb, etcetera have at least had their feet burned. What this will accomplish to relieve tension in the Far East is incomprehensible to us, but perhaps...