Word: woven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which was woven into a subtle effect on the airwaves, but has been thrown at you here in what comes dangerously close to dripping Hollywood sentimental corn...
This book is called a novel about St. Francis of Assisi, but it is not so much a religious tale as a picture of the first two decades of the 13th Century. It is an historical tapestry into which is woven the story of how Francis, by his fabulous simplicity, got what he wanted both from the Pope in Rome and the infidel Sultan of Egypt, of how a tough and worldly French knight became King of Jerusalem against his will, of how thousands of the children of Christendom strangely vanished from their homes forever (on the Children...
...frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many a plain citizen had his faith in Russia as an ally and as a responsible partner in peace severely shaken...
...Claire Chennault's face that stops a man, meeting him for the first time. The skin is burnt and leather-beaten by the sun to a permanent brown, cut and scarred by razor-sharp lines that drop perpendicularly about his mouth. About the eyes sky-strain has woven a lacework of crow's-feet. Within this net work, two coal-black eyes brood and smolder. Said an artist assigned to do a portrait of the General : "That man has the face of a hawk...
...People's Role. In the agony of revolution, in the process of becoming a battlefield, a battered and buffeted nation might be finding its soul. It might be reaching back across the years to pick up again the democratic thread woven in a history of foreign oppression and domestic tyranny. Before Magna Charta and King John, Italy's northern cities had won self-rule from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Florence and Venice had once borne the title of republic. But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph...