Word: altar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publishers, laying their billfolds on the altar of history, were hotly competing for every big-name rehash of yesterday's news...
...Government's Food Ministry and Military Council sent representatives to take part in public prayers for rain. A lama supplicated the heavenly waters by burning incense before an altar for three days...
Bishop Manning's first ambition is to tear down the reredos, a carved stone screen built behind the high altar in 1909. Removing it, he said, will make the west-east interior view "the longest unbroken vista in Christendom" (one-ninth of a mile). Such superlatives are characteristic of St. John's, which when finished will be the world's second biggest church (bigger: St. Peter's in the Vatican), and the biggest of Gothic design. Still to come (see cuts): the upper half of two west towers, one more transept, and part of another...
Most of the missionaries' time had been spent in trying to improve the lives of their fellow fugitives. With medical supplies almost nonexistent, they dressed the wounds of guerrillas. In a deep gorge, they cut seats, altar, lectern and pulpit out of rock and fashioned a chapel. The congregation dwindled as U.S. submarines, supplying the guerrillas, began to evacuate some of the Americans. The missionaries chose to stay...
...small Scottish island, "On Approval" allows two kindly if ineffectual characters to realize that they don't want to marry the selfish Brook and Miss Lillie, while the latter pair finally end at the altar. In spite of a well worn plot, this film brings out the best of English humour. Shying away from Hollywood's gag-happy style, "On Approval" specializes in a never ending series of sly, subtle touches that provide an hour and a half of continuous laughter rather than the customary two and a half of spasmodic guffaws...