Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road of aggression against half a dozen small states was strewn with broken non-aggression pacts (just as Hitler's road had been). Yet Lange did not cancel his trip; instead, he pocketed the note, snapped that he would "study it and reply in due course," and took...
...more refined tortures than the knife and pincers. Nobody can prove that Mindszenty was drugged or beaten. All that can be said with certainty is that Mindszenty's whole life proved he was a brave and stubborn man, a man who at every fork in his life proudly took the dangerous, uphill way; to have made such a man "recant" was a sort of miracle of evil...
...taken the uphill way again. He preached against the Nazis' "new paganism." When the Nazis occupied Hungary, many Hungarians of German descent dropped their Magyarized names and started using their old German ones again. Tough Father Joseph Pehm did the contrary. He dropped his German name and took a Hungarian one, derived from his native village-Mindszenty...
...Sick & the Jailed. At 23, Joseph Pehm was ordained and went home to Csehimindszenty, where his mother proudly watched him celebrate his first Mass. In 1917 he went to teach in the small town of Zalaegerszeg, later became its parish priest. The parish he took over was in poor shape. He immediately started building a new church and a new school. He kept four cows and distributed milk to the undernourished children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror...
...days after the Germans took over, Joseph Mindszenty became bishop of Veszprem. In his graceful rococo palace, Bishop Mindszenty hid many Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis. Last week, a witness spoke up-but not in the Communists' Budapest courtroom. She was Mrs. Janos Peter, a Hungarian Jew who had escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp. She now lived in Vienna. "I was advised to flee to Veszprem," she related. "I put myself under the protection of Bishop Mindszenty. He received me warmly and hid me in the cellar of his palace. At least 25 people were there...