Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday in 1905, two young Sorbonne students climbed hand in hand up the long, steep stairs to Paris' Sacré Coeur. They knocked at a door which was opened by a strange, shabby old man with a walrus mustache. Young Protestant Jacques Maritain and his Jewish wife Rai'ssa had come to old Roman Catholic Leon Bloy for help. The Maritains were heavyhearted with questions, and they believed that Bloy, the outcast scourge of complacent Christianity (TIME, April 14, 1947), might have some answers...
...books. Wrote Maritain: "All the values we gave to things were put in different places, as if by the turning of an invisible switch. We knew . . . from then on that 'there is but one sadness, and that is, not to be of the saints' . . ." Maritain and his wife became Roman Catholics...
...picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab and his wicked wife Jezebel. Last week in Memphis, 8,000 Southern Baptists heard their new president preach it again-for the 316th time...
...this careful attention to detail brings Gorgeous George upwards of $70,000 a year. He doesn't seem to mind playing his swishy role. But he steps out of character whenever anybody asks nosey questions about his wife and two kids: "Let's leave the better half of my life outa this...
...week, compared with the U.S. average industrial wage of $51.50. He gets to work on time, gets along very well with people smarter than he is. Movies are his favorite entertainment, though he also listens to the radio regularly. He marries, at an average age of 21.9 years, a wife who went farther in school than he, and has an average of one child. Dr. Kennedy made no test of the child's intelligence...