Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suicide of Jan Masaryk in Czechoslovakia today has a significance far beyond that of the loss of the man himself. Masaryk was almost universally accepted as a good man, and his death in the wake of the Communist revolution is a severe shock to the entire world, not only in its personal aspect, but in its symbolism as well. Many people will believe that any action which resulted in this man's suicide must necessarily be evil...
...every characteristic Christian insight if only it could thereby prove itself intellectually respectable. . . . Modern man's faith in progress is at such complete variance with a history which presents him with ever more perplexing issues . . . that the faith is becoming discredited, and disillusion and despair follow in its wake. Liberal Christianity is involved in this disillusionment. Having sought to make a success story of the biblical history of a Crucified Savior . . . it finds itself unable to cope with the tragic experiences...
Newsman McGuire wormed a confirmation out of Joe. According to Joe, Nelson had taken him to the wake of a prominent political writer. There he had introduced him to many legislators. All of them, said Joe, told him that if it were not for Rags, he wouldn't be getting that big check...
Last week, a grand jury listened to Joe's story and invited Rags Nelson to tell his. Rags was indignant, then thought better of it. He told newsmen that he had attended the wake with Joe, had a drink with him at the La Salle, but denied all knowledge...
...takes so little to be happy. . . . Now all I would wish, in this winter of the spirit, is to fall asleep and wake up in a luxury of light and warmth; not to have every morsel of coal dragged unwillingly from the bowels of the coal mine; not to have all food weighed and balanced up in calories, with so many million deaths anticipated, calmly, from cold and starvation; but to pass on to the light and warmth of life...