Word: chapelful
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...anticipate Ibn Saud's every wish, from arranging lend-lease for Saudi Arabia and a cowboy outfit for one of the young princes to furnishing limousines, sweet water and gleaming refrigerators. U.S. technicians headed for duty in Saudi Arabia were assiduously schooled in Arab courtesy. No Christian chapel was built on the Aramco concession for fear of offending Ibn Saud's hard-shell Moslem subjects. The company wanted no trouble; it wanted to be allowed to stay around...
...every man was suspicious of all but his oldest friends. An underground handbill proclaimed to the fainthearted: "The voice of the people is the voice of God!" Citizens of the little Dutch city of Huissen (pop. 7,340) had determined to break down the door of the Dominican chapel...
...parish priests were grieved. How could they minister to the parish if they heard no confessions? On the last Sunday of December, they had the satisfaction of reading from their pulpits a letter from Bernard Alfrink, the archbishop coadjutor of Utrecht. The letter announced that thereafter the Dominican chapel would be closed to the public and that the Dominicans would soon be moved to another district. Huissen's worried citizens wondered what to do. The town council had an idea: it sent a unanimous resolution to the papal nuncio in The Hague, asking him to put the town...
Tearing & Cracking. The hour was set for 9:45 Saturday evening. At 8:45 the three told two trusted friends of their plans. At 9:15 they told 20 more. Just before 9:45, the 25 conspirators crept along the dark lanes behind the chapel. With the help of a carpenter, they could have opened the locked door easily, but they foresaw that it would be just as easy for the police to close it again. They heaved at one of the double doors with a crowbar. Finally it came loose with a loud tearing and cracking, and they lugged...
...moviegoers had left the last showing of For Whom the Bell Tolls, all Holland had heard it on the 11 p.m. newscast. Next morning before sunup, hundreds of bicycle lamps twinkled along the long, flat roads as the faithful rode to the Dominicans' early Mass and overflowed the chapel...