Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago, Villeda Morales joined Tegucigalpa Archbishop Emilio Morales Roque in dedicating the nation to both the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary-making his the first government anywhere to take the two pledges simultaneously.* Since then, a task force of more than 100 priests has traveled the jungles of southern Honduras on a "Holy Mission": bringing the sacraments to a neglected people...
...special dispensation of the $12 license fee. Bathing in rivers, living on tortillas and beans, Father Jorge Toruno visited 17 towns, spoke to 30,000 people and married 1,139 couples, two-thirds of whom had never been to confession or communion. In the capital, Tegucigalpa, the task force of priests distributed communion to 67,000 people and married 1,500 couples...
...Miracle Worker is reminiscent of another play about a famous recovery from handicap, Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello. Both have the advantage of a ready-made, well-known story, of ready-made audience sympathy. But Gibson's task is a far more demanding one: while Schary could work with the breezy personality of the adult F.D.R., Gibson has as his heroine a six-year-old girl who cannot speak a word. There is, of course, the wonderful Annie, beautifully played by Miss Bancroft, but Helen remains the central figure, an unusual and tremendously difficult character...
Just five events earlier, American prospects had looked bleak indeed. Taylor's two sprint victories and a surprise triumph by Cambridge's Jim Parker in the high hurdles had given the English a 6-4 lead. The Americans were faced with the task of taking four of the last five events to avoid defeat...
...first book Nabokov wrote in English (his workshop was the bathroom of his one-room Paris flat), Sebastian Knight has a low sex quotient and no nymphets. Instead, it is devoted to themes that novelists seem to be born with: the question of identity, the nature of reality, the task of the writer. Nabokov's treatment of these themes is idiomorphic; his form is flashingly and immutably his own. He is a Pirandellphic oracle in that he sees life as just one damned trap door under another...