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...before Prime Minister Chamberlain had told the House: "I know that there are some who would urge a more vigorous policy, who say that by some unexplained, imaginative stroke of daring we ought, as they say, to wrest to ourselves the initiative. With the responsibility that rests upon the shoulders of this Government we cannot be hustled into adventures which appear to us to present little chance of success and much chance of danger and perhaps disaster...
Francis of Assisi, simplest and kindliest of saints, lived in an age when Christendom sent army after army to wrest the Holy Land from the infidel. Burning to convert, rather than slaughter, the paynim, St. Francis took Palestine as a province of his order, before he or his followers ever laid eyes on it. When he did arrive there in 1219, the little saint settled Franciscans in some of the Holy Land's holy places. In 1333, by treaty with the Sultan, and with papal approval, Franciscans were awarded permanent "Custody of the Holy Land"-i.e., care...
...Maestri and Hotelman Seymour Weiss of New Orleans, were no less interested in this development than was State Senator James A. Noe, onetime friend of Huey's friends. It was Mr. Noe who was reported to have stirred up Washington columnists, hoping thereby to better his chances to wrest the Governorship from the Leche-Maestri-Weiss organization next year. If he runs Senator Noe will have to beat Earl Long, who will have to rumple up both his hair and his personality before he can hope to equal his late brother in vote appeal and administrative aptitude...
Decked in bunting, schooled in her curtsies, excited and nervous as a schoolgirl, Canada last week anxiously awaited the most important event in her life since Wolfe landed with his Army under the bluffs of Quebec 180 years ago to wrest the country from the French for Britain. George VI, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, and his Queen, Elizabeth, were coming a-visiting-the first sovereign visit in Canada's history...
Robert Marcus Burgunder Jr. was generally regarded by those who knew him as a model young man. He was smart. He was well-behaved. During school vacations he worked in the Wrest Coast harvest fields, drove a tractor on a cinema studio lot, organized magazine sales crews. Robert's father is a respected lawyer in Seattle, a onetime prosecuting attorney. Robert followed each one of his father's criminal cases with intense interest, spotting in each case the malefactor's errors which led to detection and capture. Mr. Burgunder was somewhat puzzled by this queer absorption...