Word: abbots
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Edmund Q. Abbot...
...Stanley Abbot...
...Abbot Goodhue...
...time, were both Egyptian laymen and swarthy delegates of the Ethiopian Coptic Church. The choice: Archbishop Anba Yussab, 63, whose flowing white beard gives him a proper patriarchal dignity. Ordained 40 years ago in a desert monastery founded by St. Anthony, he later studied theology in Athens,* was an abbot in Jerusalem during World War I, when he showed great diplomacy in dealing with the successive rulers of the Holy City...
...series of new satellite towns, each with its own factory, home and business districts divided by parklike "green belts." The population of Stevenage would rise from 6,000 to 60,000. It would lose the picture-book aspect it had worn since 1281, when it was chartered to the Abbot of St. Peter's, Westminster. Stevenage would be new, up-to-date...