Word: whitsunday
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...What Shall We Do?" The Society of Brothers was born in the dark night of the soul that settled upon Germany at the end of World War I. At Whitsunday in 1919, Eberhard Arnold, a cheerful, passionate man whose spiritual seeking had led him out of the. Reformed Church and into the Anabaptist way of thinking, addressed the German Student Christian Movement in Marburg in words so moving that his apartment in Berlin soon became an open house for young world-changers...
...Order of St. Sylvester by the Pope. This, according to Bureth, entitles Erell by ancient 'custom to enter St. Anne's Church on horseback. Showman Bureth is arranging to have the architect ride into church astride a horse just before the Canoemen's Mass on Whitsunday...
...Picnickers. The fugitive, dubbed by French newsmen "the Mad Moor," had begun his killing spree on Whitsunday (May 13), when André Souvignon, a young French official, picnic-bound in the family Renault, met him on a twisting mountain road near Ben el Ouidane. Without warning, the killer had stepped from behind a cactus bush, pumped shot after shot into the car, killed Souvignon and his mother, wounded another couple. On the same road, three miles farther on, police found the crumpled, blood-drenched body of a 26-year-old Parisienne named Helene Meunier, who had motorcycled into the hills...
...days later, 25 miles from the scene of the Whitsunday murders, Georges Chantot, a crippled World War II veteran, was fishing by a laurel-bordered brook, with his wife, their three-months-old daughter, and a schoolteacher friend...
Five Shots to Go. By last week, police thought they knew who the killer was. They recalled an incident that had occurred four days before Whitsunday in a small native village-a quarrel between a corporal in the native auxiliary troops and an ex-trooper named Amou N'Talit Tademalit, a Berber tribesman who, some said, was in love with the corporal's wife. Whatever the cause, the corporal had decided to show his contempt for Amou by treating him like a servant. Riding proudly up to his house that day, he had flung his reins...