Word: healing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jogjakarta, Soekarno formally took his oath of office on the Koran (which according to Moslem custom was held against the back of his head). "Brothers, brothers," he cried in his inaugural address, "I pray for strength. Our task now is to fill that vacuum called freedom . . . Now we must heal the wounds and wipe off the blood...
...their departure did not completely heal the Advocate's internal rift. There were still dissentients who thought that the magazine had a way to go before it was cleared of "artiness...
...friends were worried about him. For days in a row, he shut himself up in his midtown Manhattan hotel and brooded. He watched ballgames by television; the semimonthly installments on his $90,000-a-year salary seemed to increase his gloom. Waiting for his sore heel to heal had made easygoing, hard-playing Joe DiMaggio a different...
...point of view is always so unconventional that most people would feel safer at being in his bad books than in his good ones. In The Apes of God (1932), Lewis flailed phony British "culture" with rip-roaring violence; in Time and Western Man (1928) he sought to "heal and reinvigorate" the ailing body of Western civilization with bursts of high-voltage shock treatment. But now, aged 64, Lewis has decided that most of the Western species is as far beyond succor as Cro-Magnon Man, and he has fallen madly in love with "that wonderful country," the U.S.A...
Ulcerated Hearts. Confess and do penance as they will, they can neither undo their crime nor heal the ulcers in their hearts; for, says Author Green, the consequences of a crime of weakness are as terrible as those of a crime of strength. A fire in Pelancey's shop destroys them: "They spoke to each other, incoherently . . . until the very last moment of life, holding firmly to each other as they lay there beneath the beams...