Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friends of Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday, recalled a recent Churchillism on the subject of old age: "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." In the first issue of the Italian magazine Insieme (Together), which the publishers had promised would stress "the exaltation of family life," Co-Editor Countess Edda Ciano wrote unashamedly that she had been born out of wedlock to Benito Mus solini and Rachele Guidi, who was later his wife. "For many years, unaware of being a bastard...
...party. Last week, the part of Christ went to 37-year-old Anton Preisinger. The change had nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal of the role. Each performance lasts eight hours, during which the Christus, after carrying a heavy cross, must hang upon it for 30 minutes...
...idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...
...sleepwalked through the first collection were beyond analysis or classification. Yet people came, looked, gasped, and saw themselves revealed in all their confusion, caught in their petty vice, their self-delusions laid bare. Though they turned away white-faced and shaken they came back for some when a second ordeal "What Am I Doing Here?" thrust itself forward-for they had also laughed...
Yipping Coyotes. Guthrie, who now teaches writing at the University of Kentucky, has researched The Way West with impressive care. The speech of the time, the day-by-day ordeal of the people, the description of the land as it then looked, the realistic handling of Indians, will make even the closest student of the U.S. West applaud...