Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month's rest in the mountains. Behind him he left a party frozen in factionalism and no longer able to capitalize on its greatest electoral appeals-the useful services it performed during the years when its leaders held high office in coalition with the ruling Demo-Christian Party...
...Ministry of Economic Property, which would administer government-owned or controlled enterprises (Volkswagen, 50% of the nation's iron ore. 90% of its lignite). He sweetened the pill by asking if Schäffer would also like to be Vice Chancellor. Protestants within Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party promptly squawked that to replace Protestant Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher with Roman Catholic Schaffer would wreck the Cabinet balance between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Schäffer agreed to accept only if he was also given control of the federal debt...
...meet the pagan where he is." Dr. Gockel allows none of his characters except the fallen to smoke, drink, or dance too close. (His definition of too close: "without space showing between the two bodies.") "But we never preach," he says. "We simply let the value of the Christian message demonstrate itself...
Tomb & Church. Around 322, Christian Emperor Constantine affronted the wealthy tomb owners by ordering the construction of a great ramp of earth from the side of the hill against which the tombs nestled. Ruthlessly, though with great care not to disturb the dead, most of the tombs were sliced off to the level of the ramp, and their interiors were rammed full of earth. On this ramp Constantine began the construction of the first Church of St. Peter...
...life as "ecstatic hours of prayer . . . unrestricted conversation . . . and plenty of time for reading and writing." Instead there is a busy round of "dusting, sweeping, sewing, mending" plus spiritual duties, beginning at 4:45 a.m. Ursula is soon displaying what can only be called a lack of Christian charity and humility. Her priest-confessor "has little blue eyes like an intelligent pig. " Her choir neighbor has a rasping voice that "bores like a drill." The nun's "starched headgear not only gives one a headache but-makes it difficult to hear." And fasting "makes one feel so dreadful...