Word: christi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corpus Christi, Texas...
...offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells. Virtually every big company has fields, tank farms, refineries along its banks clear down to Corpus Christi-Texas Co., Standard Oil of N.J., Superior Oil, Magnolia, Kerr-McGee Pure Oil, Cities Service, Shell Oil, Gulf, Humble...
...around Don Camillo, the faithless ones who had voted for the party of atheism were busy with preparations for the season's No. 1 feast, the celebration of Corpus Christi. It was the annual great event in many a village like Vingone. Children scoured the hillsides searching for flowers to string into garlands for the streets. Mothers sewed on fancy-dress costumes for the procession of the Eucharist through the streets, while their husbands wielded paintbrush and hammer on the decorations. And lilting in every heart in the village was the thought of the wining, dining and dancing that...
...afterward the news was all over Italy. Quivering with rage, Italy's chief Communist organ L'Unita reprinted the village priest's proclamation under the sneering three-column headline, CHRIST UNDER ARREST, and accused Don Camillo of making Jesus his "private property" and of treating "Corpus Christi like a batch of spaghetti payable in return for the Christian Democrats' vote." Against these fulminations, Don Camillo found himself supported and praised by the Vatican's newspaper Osservatore Romano. Don Camillo, it said, correctly "deemed it improper that solemn homage to Christ should be rendered 'with...
Iselin plans to study at Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University, Schneider at the London School of Economics, and Miss Johnson at Edinborough...