Word: heart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White Light. Then the speeches started. Their main theme: only the Afrikaner (i.e., descendants of the Boers) might rightfully carry "the white light of Christendom" into "the black heart of Africa...
...Nation last week found itself with an issue dear to its professionally liberal heart: freedom of opinion. And, as usual, it made the most of it. In its own pages, the Nation, in effect, charged that the Saturday Review of Literature was suppressing free opinion. The suppression: the S.R.L.'s refusal to print a letter, signed by 84 poets, critics and others, criticizing two articles the S.R.L. had printed last June about Poet Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize (TIME, Aug. 29). The Nation itself printed the letter last week, alongside an article accusing the S.R.L. of everything from...
...religion without elaborate liturgy or complicated creed. Its theology is the simplest practice of Christianity. It proceeds on the down-to-earth theory that Christ gave clear instructions on what to do about the degraded, the abandoned and the poor. And so it has fought-with its heart to God and its hand...
...army job: general of the International. It was a signal honor to be in the line of succession from William Booth to son Bramwell Booth,* to Edward John Higgins, to Bramwell's firebrand sister Evangeline,† to Australian-born George Lyndon Carpenter. But Pugmire turned it down; his heart, strained by years of work, travel and dedication, was not up to the job, which went to Albert W. T. Orsborn, son-in-law of the late General Higgins. Pugmire became commissioner of the U.S. Vested with more authority than any other U.S. churchman-his command over his four territories...
...time the division had won its 19th Medal of Honor and its 18,337th Purple Heart after Okinawa, it was ready to take on more replacements and train for the invasion of Japan. But soon the war was over and all hands were on their way to China...