Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women retired to consider this point. In 25 minutes they returned a verdict: guilty. A figure in black came to stand beside the presiding justice. Mr. Justice Tucker sentenced William Joyce to be hanged by the neck until he was dead. Then the man in black, a chaplain, intoned "Amen...
...Teach the Heart." During con versation-less meals in the peaceful refec tory they listen to reading selected "to teach the heart [and] the intellect." At day's end (8:30 p.m.), with the words, "the Divine help remain with us always, Amen," they begin the Great Silence which (except for words of worship) lasts until after breakfast the next morning...
...leadership for the community in all of its aspects." The school was nonsectarian, but most of the preacher-students were Methodists. Instructors skirted doctrinal mat ters, stressed the cold facts of soil conservation, health, education. Classes were highly informal, with the preachers lounging in overstuffed chairs and enthusiastically shouting "Amen!" when a speaker made a telling point. After two weeks of hard study, most of them took a night off to see the Atlanta Crackers baseball club wallop Nashville...
...voices joined in another hymn: Faith of Our Fathers. Bishop Angus Dun repeated once more the remembered words from the President's first inaugural address: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Then: "Through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen...
...most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee . . . to restrain these immoderate rains. . .. Grant us fair weather for battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory . . . and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen...