Word: ascendency
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...tour of Rome. Everest-conquering Nepalese Guide Tenzing Norgay squeezed in a Vatican visit and a papal audience. "So this is Tenzing, the famous Sherpa," said Pope John XXIII, beaming. "Bravo, bravo, we all need to ascend more and more." Later, Buddhist Norgay summed up, imprecisely, the brief encounter: "The Pope is very likable, a very holy person, but it's hard to explain what a man feels in his presence...
Winning every swimming event but the 100-yard free style, the Crimson did not ascend to great heights, but was strong and consistent enough to have literally no difficulty defeating the usually weak Engineers. Tech's Dave Cahlander, however, managed to break the existing M.I.T. three-meter board record, winning the diving with a total of 74.55 points...
...graduate school, do especially well in the sciences. Equalitarian Oberlin bans automobiles, and although almost every student pedals a bicycle, the hot spots of Cleveland-and Elyria-are out of effective range. But high spirits burst out, sometimes beerily. Night climbing expeditions have been known to ascend the lumpish fagades of classroom buildings, and a recent visitor saw two happy collegians reeling along on a motorcycle, one sitting backwards and whanging a guitar...
...only do they wish to defend you against dangers lurking along the way; they are also active at your side with a word of encouragement to your souls as you strive to ascend higher and higher to closeness to God through Christ...
...herself an Atonist, and she spots Baby Moses in the bulrushes, where his captive Levite mother has left him as a sacrifice to the water-snake god. Enekhas-Amon takes the infant, reappears at court months later pretending that the child is hers. One day, she dreams. Moses will ascend the throne and restore Aton to his sole supremacy...