Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traitors and conspirators in the 1930s and '40s, and previously it had Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, too. Public debate has long since passed over A for Arnold and B for Burr. The time seems to have come when C for Communist Infiltration may also be considered a lesson mastered. If so, the U.S. may be able to pass on to D for Defense and E for Enterprise...
...Yachting's articles come from yachtsmen (rate: $105 per 3,500-word article) who, with the help of Yachting's editors, set down their experiences with loglike authenticity. For the more practical-minded, the magazine runs boat plans and tips on everything from racing to cooking eggs Benedict in a ketch's galley...
...little North Carolina town of Newton Grove (pop. 450), two frame churches stand 200 yds. apart. Both are Roman Catholic. Until this week the Church of the Holy Redeemer had some 350 members, all white; the Church of St. Benedict had about 90 members, all Negro...
...determinedly anti-church regime, which had shorn, the Vatican of property and political authority in Italy. But as the political peril to religion developed on the left, the ban slowly relaxed. At the end of World War I, a scholarly Sicilian priest named Luigi Sturzo persuaded Pope Benedict XV to let him form a political party of Catholic laymen. Don Luigi promised that he would resolutely avoid church control, and he kept his promise...
...truth, of course, there is no guilt. It borders on paranoia to liken Perini to Benedict Arnold because he didn't want to lose another half million dollars this year--and the next, most likely, and the year after that. It makes no more sense to slander the populace for failing to flock to watch a loser...