Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was 15, Knox began to take up religion seriously on his own. A friend came down with typhoid and, feeling that he must somehow help, Knox lived on bread & butter for six weeks. When the friend died, Knox prayed for him 15 minutes daily "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity ... I must have 'power to attend to the Lord without impediment...
...before him is an exacting one, hedged about by ancient laws and customs. The strict confinement* and almost continual presence of numerous church officials and advisers cost Athenagoras' predecessor his reason. A few months after the election of 51-year-old Maximos V in 1946, a priest came upon him beating the walls of his quarters and crying: "This is not the post for a young man!" For almost three years the church has buzzed with rumors that the mad patriarch would soon be deposed, but only this month -with Maximos shelved in a sinecure-did the twelve metropolitans...
...years' breathing of U.S. democratic air might fortify him against the efforts of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei to bring all the Eastern churches "home." to Russia. The Turkish government (unofficially Moslem) unofficially indicated that it would be "very, very satisfied" by Athenagoras' election. The only opposition came from those who opposed the election of a non-Turk or who resented the obvious political interest of the Turkish government and the Western nations...
Once, when an internal revenue man came around to question him, suspicious of the number of exemptions he claimed, Papa Conway discovered that he had forgotten one; instead of paying more, he got a credit...
...confidently into the arena at Madison Square Garden last week. Only two nations-France and Canada-bothered to compete against them* in the military events of the National Horse Show, the World Series of the horsy set. Shrugged one member of Canada's four-man team: "We just came to do the best we can. But the Mexicans, it is their whole life...