Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself, were convinced that this dramatic gesture would shock the Social Democrats into submission. But when the city council met again last week, the majority of its members proved ready and eager to find another mayor. Unfazed, La Pira pulled another card out of his sleeve: along with 24 Christian Democrats and two right-wing Liberals, he resigned from the council itself. By so doing, he hoped to make it impossible for the city government to function and thereby force new elections-elections in which he might hope to win a majority of the council seats. "Have patience," he told...
...letter of apology to Barbara, eight legislators regretted that some of their colleagues "have lost their sense of values, are more interested in personal advancement and the applause of the folks back home than they are in Christian principles of right and wrong." An effigy bearing the names of Sadler and Chapman dangled on the campus; another hung from the rotunda of the Capitol. Eighty student members of the Young Republicans and Young Democrats adopted a resolution condemning the university's action as a "flagrant" violation of the "principle of an equal chance for everyone...
...black Nigerian city of 459,000, eager young Africans full of ideas on how to remake the world adopt the manners and academic costumes of their distant white cousins at Oxford and Cambridge. The white man's faith has also come with him to temper with Christian mercy the harsh superstitions of native paganism: Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British East Africa, isolated settlements of other Protestant religions elsewhere. Numerically, Christian conversions are few, and in most areas Islam is proving a more dynamic creed...
...tribe, between black, white and Asian. Proud white settlers in Rhodesia, who now consider themselves more African than European, refer contemptuously to their advanced black partners as "Fags," short for Federated African Gentlemen. The Moslem Fulani of Nigeria's north consider the energetic Ibos of the nationalistic, Christian and pagan east no better than barbarians...
...nationalism in Poland as it is in few other countries; Poland became Catholic to avoid being gobbled up. When the pagan Polish ruler Mieszko I was attacked A.D. 963 by Saxon Warlord Count Wichman, Mieszko cannily guessed that this early German Drang nach Osten would disguise itself as a Christian missionary enterprise. To undercut this excuse, he married a Bohemian Catholic princess, took himself and country to the Church of Rome in 966. The office of primate, which in many countries degenerated into a mere courtesy title, remained in Poland (as in Hungary) a potent center of temporal power...