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...word izzat was borrowed from the Hindus and Persians, who swiped it from the Arabic. In Arabic, izzat (freely translated) means: the most utterly glorious magnificence...
When would the glorious Red Armies win? For years one had watched tanks clanking through the streets, and outside the villages one had seen the parachutes pouring down like crazy cotton snowflakes; one had accumulated tremendous faith in this power. But this power had been pushed back, now, deep into Russia, had been cut at Smolensk, cupped at Leningrad, driven even beyond the ancient Golden Gate of Kiev...
...Tough, stout-hearted Dutch, Belgians, Luxemburgers! Tormented, mishandled, shamefully castaway peoples of Yugoslavia! Glorious Greece, now subjected to the crowning insult of rule by the Italian jackanapes! Yield not an inch. Keep your souls clean from all contact with the Nazis. Make them feel, even in their hour of brutish triumph, that they are the moral outcasts of mankind. Help is coming. Mighty forces are arming in your behalf. Have faith. Have hope. Deliverance is sure...
...Trinity House is a Mariner's organization chartered by King Henry VIII in 1514 as a "Guild, Fraternity or Brotherhood of the Most Glorious and Undividable Trinity of St. Clement." Duties: to erect and manage coast lighthouses and buoys, operate the pilot service in harbors. In 1604 members were divided into Elder and Younger Brethren. There are 13 Elder Brethren, two from the Navy, eleven from the Merchant Marine; and 200 Younger Brethren, elected by the Elders. Trinity House is now a corporation. Churchill is an Elder Brother...
...Adolphe Max had been Brussels' burgomaster for five years when the Kaiser's armies clomped over the border. Within five glorious weeks little Burgomaster Max became to his people a legend for lionheartedness. Legends...