Word: wavers
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...particularly strong cry of indignation rose from Mercedarian headquarters, disturbed from a century of obscurity. Snapped a Mercedarian father: "Blandino isn't of us. The Mercedarians never volunteered to substitute for political prisoners. They were only interested in religious prisoners whose faith might waver under persecution and imprisonment. We want no part of politics...
...embodiment of the homespun debunker; but where Will fired salvos at Congress, Godfrey snipes at the lesser game of admen and pressagents. Like Bing Crosby, he blends urbanity with the slippered ease of a small-town family man. Like George M. Cohan, he is a Yankee Doodle flag waver...
...nation looks upon you, how you will fare in this historic hour of trial. Remain loyal to your bishops, who suffer with you and do not waver even if their voice does not reach you. The church is indestructible and to suffer for Christ is the greatest glory...
...younger girl she may often have longed to call less cynical attention to her large, soft blue eyes and to kick up her heels in freer fashion. As a princess, she can only mock, strictly among friends, and make the best of it. "After all," as one flag-waver remarked while welcoming Margaret to Capri last month, "a king's daughter is still a king's daughter...
...downstairs part will serve as a museum for Rivera's pre-Cortesian sculptures. Stone-grey and stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through...