Word: anointing
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...Both men and women are of a common size with Europeans . . . The women . . . were the merriest creatures . . . and kept chattering without the least invitation . . . From the waist upwards they are generally naked, and it seemed to be a custom to anoint these parts every morning . . . They are seldom disturbed by either foreign or domestic troubles [and] appeared healthy, strong and vigorous-a proof of the goodness of the climate in which they live...
...Jesus takes Mary the sister of Lazarus as his Queen at the ancient rite during which his cultist followers lame him and anoint him King; but to everyone's dismay he announces his New Law of chastity...
...when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early, in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. . . . And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them...
...Sent for Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, arousing speculation that: 1) he would tell Bounding Burt to get busy, take to the road, if he wants to be President; 2) he was ready to anoint Mr. Wheeler as a Democratic Presidential possibility...
John Nance Garner was the first top-bracket Democrat to understand that Franklin Roosevelt was not going to anoint and bless any Presidential candidate until the last dragged-out moment before the 1940 convention. Looking over the field, Mr. Garner concluded his chances of anointment were pretty dim; out went his braves to do something about it. By last week they could confidently report back to the Vice President that his complete retirement from public life on Jan. 20, 1941 was a dead cinch, but that with him he might well take Mr. Roosevelt...