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...noon, dapper, coal-black President-elect William Vacarat Shadrach Tubman took over from President Roosevelt's onetime host and guest, Edwin J. Barclay (TIME, June 7). Then the new President knelt to ask the blessing of God upon his people. His lazy drawl poured out over the multitude, reminding all that Liberia had been founded under God and on Christian principles...
Somberly, the little man with venom in his heart went home. At midnight, his mind was made up. In the way prescribed by the rigid samurai code, Nakano purified himself with cold water, donned a new kimono, knelt on a pillow before a small shrine. With a sure hand, he plunged a dagger into his belly, drew it across, then turned it upwards...
...idea that the Gospel could rehabilitate a man. Not so Convert Parker. He got up early mornings to chalk Scripture texts on sidewalks. He drove brass-headed nails in the shape of large S's into the soles of his boots so that when he knelt in the streets people would be reminded of the Salvation Army. But some people were unregenerate. Mobs often stoned the Salvationists, threw rotten eggs, refuse. Says Parker reminiscently: "They had a lot of vitality mixed up with their...
...Peace. The people responded with anger and dismay. In Milan, despite Premier Badoglio's ban against public assemblies, they gathered in shattered streets and cried: "We got rid of one tyranny; now we must remove another." In Rome crowds shouted "Peace!" and knelt to pray with Pope Pius XII who came from the Vatican to see the raid damage...
...year later, Eugenie made a pilgrimage to Africa. The night before the anniversary of Louis' death she spent in prayer at the spot where he had been killed. All night, curious but not hostile, the natives watched her where she knelt. "Toward morning," Eugenie wrote, "a strange thing happened. The flames of the candles were dimmed, as though someone had almost blown them out, and I wanted to ask: 'Are you there? Do you want me to go?' " As women do, she lived 40 years longer...