Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frau Bracht counted in thousands the "international marriages" she had arranged. Said she: "The cream of German life-writers, scientists, actors, professional people from every walk of life-want to marry foreign girls." Marriage was a way of escaping Germany's chilly ruins. One of Frau Bracht's crisp slogans put it simply: "Marry and Emigrate...
...Miracles: "Modern man, with his thought shaped by scientific investigation, is certain that miracles ... do not happen, Only figuratively can the blind receive their sight, or the lame be made to walk, or the lepers be cleansed. . . . Without a doubt, the need to jettison the miraculous element in the New Testament . . . weakens the reliability of the gospel narratives; and, insofar as Christian teaching has been built upon the power of Jesus to perform miracles, and upon the miracles associated with His birth and death, it calls for a drastic refashioning of such teaching...
...children, whose name was Henry, decided to use his inheritance to cultivate his passion for "being" instead of "doing." Wrote he: "I can give ecstatic hours to worship or meditation but moments spent in original deed, such as putting a button upon my coat or cleansing my garden-walk of weeds, weigh very heavily upon my shoulders." Billy's grandson, Novelist Henry James Jr., never regretted that "the rupture with my grandfather's tradition and attitude was complete; we were never in a single case, I think, for two generations, guilty of a stroke of business...
...clock a small group of Dartmouths, disguised as ordinary laborers, will walk into Dillon Field House and attempt to steal Crimson jerseys or any other Harvard athletic uniforms they can lay hands...
...miracle!" cried someone in the crowd. A toothless, middle-aged woman, dressed in black save for a gay bandanna around her head, came hobbling down the street. "For two years I have not been able to walk," she cried. "I was carried to the Father. Now look at me. I'm walking. Viva Padre Antonio." Those who followed her joined in a throaty "Viva." Then she shouted: "Viva our Lady of Grace," and the crowd chorused. Two women with her wept. Men doffed their hats as she moved slowly past...