Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Leo wrote in 1891 the great enemy was Socialism; when Pius wrote in 1931 it was Communism; in 1941 it is Naziism-and the Catholic Church seems well aware that some ism or other will always tempt working people away from the creed of Christ the Carpenter unless Christianity has a better message for them. Said the late famed British Monsignor William Francis Barry...
...will set it, despite the efforts of some of the nation's most influential forces to convince them of a need for war. We believe that if the destroyers and the combat planes which we rush to Britain in the next two months are not enough, we must not tempt Mars by advancing to the fray ourselves. We must fall back on our defenses, which are improving with each new increase in production and each new perfection of technique...
Trouble with the bucks was that, as soon as they were paid a few coppers, they got gloriously drunk and ran off. One way to tempt them back was for First Officer W. L. Garner to perform his amateur conjuring tricks. On Christmas night, with the dam nearing completion, Conjurer Garner, performing in the glare of truck headlights, made a Belgian five-franc piece disappear from the hand of a small native girl. She let out a piercing scream, her arm became completely stiff, and the natives grew menacing. "She knows the money is inside her arm," grunted the native...