Word: bleaknesses
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...lordship (a Roman Catholic) was in Canada on wartime business for the Knights of Columbus. Looking at Nova Scotia had given him his great idea. He would purchase a chunk of provincial acreage, after war's end transplant Scots from his own bleak estate. A new link between old and new Scotland would be forged, his hereditary holdings would in a sense be reclaimed, everyone would be happy...
...spires of St. Basil's on Moscow's Red Square were touched with sun last week for the first time in two bleak months. Cracked passers-by:, "If spring is here, can the second front be far behind?" Cracked dour, war-worn Muscovites...
...young man, he was sent to school at Rome. But Rome's licentiousness shocked him as it was to shock Martin Luther ten centuries later. St. Benedict fled into the bleak wastes of the Abruzzi. Later he went to the ruins of Nero's villa near Anzio. In the rocks opposite the ruins he found a cave, where he lived forgotten by the crumbling world...
...recaptured Kirovograd, a woman reverently kissed a Red tank caterpillar. Far to the north, in a small village in White Russia, villagers caught a Nazi setting buildings afire, dragged him to a bleak cemetery, made him run the gantlet. Too late to strike her blow, an old, hobbling woman, dragging a heavy yoke, screamed: "Revive him, revive him! I must pay him back for my man he killed, for my house he burned." When a bucketful of ice water revived the Nazi, she brained...
Across the bleak barrens of prewar eastern Poland armies surged last week, as they have for 1,000 years. The stolid peasants who saw the Red Army drive bewildered Germans back are descendants of patient men who have straightened up to watch fire & sword swoop by for 30 generations...