Word: tranquillities
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...have a foreboding that something dangerous will happen to me for having spoken out so frankly, and the missionaries here fear that my fate will be the same as that of so many bishops in certain Red countries . . . We shall see. We are tranquil, but our sorrow lies in the fear that we may be expelled from China and have to leave our flock here and see the wolf enter the fold to make havoc of so many souls...
...live today in an atmosphere of apprehension engendered by a highly dangerous international situation is only too evident. It is not at all surprising that dogmatists with reactionary views in politics, in education, and in religion receive a ready hearing that would not be accorded them in more tranquil times...
Once he had summed up his credo: "Life is action. Sport, as well as work, is contention. All nature strives and vies, not to attain tranquillity but a more effective degree of activity. Nothing that is alive and vigorous is tranquil-not the birds nor the beasts nor the poor fish nor human beings nor nations. Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something which is not tranquil...
...classes might suffer worse damages than had already befallen their graven image (now minus an arm and a foot due to wear & tear), Amherst officials persuaded her transient keepers to give her up, retired her to the college museum behind three locked doors. There she gathered dust for seven tranquil years, until she was mysteriously beheaded by ill-wishers, promptly reheaded by the late President Stanley King, who tracked down her tortured top. After that, Sabrina was bolted to the floor...
...voice that answers at DI 0614 belongs to a short, 70-year-old woman with straggly grey hair, restless hands and a tranquil face. For the past four years, Julia A. Shelhamer, widow of a Free Methodist evangelist, has lived in her mission-a row-house in one of Washington's worst slums. With the help of two assistant ministers, their wives and her own 77-year-old sister, she conducts church and Sunday school services, plus a full schedule of community activities, for a congregation that is about half Negro, half white. "Sometimes," she says, "there are just...