Word: asses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assisi. Christmas had always been for him the "Feast of Feasts" when "God condescended to be fed by human love." In the church at the town of Greccio, three years before he died, St. Francis preached before a manger filled with hay, beside which stood an ox and an ass. Wrote an early biographer, Thomas of Celano: "Greccio was transformed almost into a second Bethlehem, and that wonderful night seemed like the fullest day to both man and beast for the joy they felt at the renewing of the mystery...
...presented in about 1589 to Elector Christian I by his wife, Sophia. When wound up, a globe on top opens, showing God surrounded by angels; a wall below slides back to reveal the manger, angels come down from heaven to music, Joseph rocks the cradle, the ox and ass rise from their knees, and the shepherds march in, followed by the kings...
...among 540 candidates for the 45-seat council: a five-year-old female rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish), resident of the São Paulo zoo, whose only graft is 70 Ibs. of vegetables each day. Said one Paulista voter: "Better to elect a rhino than an ass...
...useless because disloyalty is not eliminated by formalities, and invidious since it selects the beneficiaries of government assistance in one area and not in others. We therefore believe that the Act would be strengthened by the elimination of the oath requirement.--press release issued by Robert M. Cross, Adm. Ass't to the Vice President...
...Communism could be slain by the jaw bone of an ass, in the junior Senator from Connecticut America would have a weapon more insidiously lethal than any atomic blast...