Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think Mr. Truman is the poorest President since George Washington." On the floor of the House, Ohio's Cliff Clevenger rapped: "Might well be there will be some Congress-tanned Missouri jackass hide on the Christmas market-come November." The Rev. Peter Marshall, the Senate's chaplain, spoke the final word: "You don't overcome evil by evil. Let the record speak for itself...
...helping her lover dispose of her husband. Mrs. Thompson had fainted before her execution. Her limp body was dragged to the gallows. Said Mrs. Gould: "That execution was so horrible that after it, the hangman committed suicide,* one of the wardresses who was present went mad, and the chaplain had a very bad nervous breakdown; and every single person who was present left the service within a very short time...
...relationship with on the day of liberation, when they were both decent human beings. 4) With Florence under shellfire and contested by partisans, a U.S. nurse and an Italian friend run desperately through the empty, hazardous streets, in search of her former lover, a partisan leader. 5) Three U.S. chaplains-a Roman Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew-visit a deep-country monastery. The monks, surprised by the presence of the Jew, are deeply disturbed because the Catholic chaplain is making no effort to convert his two friends. 6) In the grandly desolate marshlands which edge the Po, a group...
...raise money for materials Ye painted oil and watercolor portraits of G.I.s. "Some of them gave me their shoes," he says, "which brought in much money." A U.S. Army chaplain .helped him get some secondhand tin for his church roof. When the church tower is finished, Ye plans to put a tablet over the entrance proclaiming that, as the ravens fed Elijah, so "the G.I.s from beyond the Pacific fed God's prophet and helped to build God's church...
Died. Pierre Petit Cardinal de Julleville, 71, gaunt, intellectual Archbishop of Rouen and Primate of Normandy; in Rouen. A leader in French Catholic education, he became a medical corps sergeant in World War I, later served as a chaplain, was twice decorated for bravery under fire...