Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furor over Forty Few Vatican announcements in recent years-apart from Pope Paul's birth control encyclical-have caused such a worldwide stir as the abrupt downgrading of more than 200 saints in 1969. Among the popular figures dropped from the universal liturgical calendar were St. Christopher, St. Nicholas (the original Santa Claus) and England's patron St. George. Now English Roman Catholics are about to recapture some of their lost ground: Pope Paul VI is planning to canonize 40 Roman Catholic martyrs who were condemned to agonizing deaths on the orders of Anglican rulers in the 16th...
...Justice Department decided that the abrupt cancellation of an Omaha-to-Billings, Mont., train last summer at remote Hemingford, Neb., was outrageous enough to file criminal charges against two Burlington Lines executives. When an expiring court injunction permitted abandonment of the service, they had the train flagged down in mid-run, stranding several irate passengers. The executives were accused of failing to provide service for tickets previously sold; if convicted, they would face fines...