Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PARIS, April 27--Taking up his first foreign assignment as U.S. Secretary of State, Christian A. Herter arrived in Paris today to help shore up weak points in the Western front for Geneva talks with the Soviet Union...
Champagne in Fatigues. Still dressed in fatigues, Castro marched into the Hotel Statler next morning, precisely on time for a friendly champagne-and-steak luncheon with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter. "Ha, they gave me little [new] potatoes!" said Fidel. That afternoon, strolling through Meridian Hill Park, he signed autographs for teenagers. "What do you call your government?" asked one. "Socialism, or what?" Castro smiled. "Cubanism!" he announced. "I feel very good," he added, scratching his chest...
...Aided by a 12-m.p.h. wind that made his effort unofficial, Abilene Christian's Bill Woodhouse, 21, did the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., became the third man to reach such a clocking. The others: ex-Southern California Star Mel Patton, and Bobby Morrow, a former Woodhouse teammate at Abilene Christian...
...situation that brought the decree was essentially a local one: in Sicily an aggressive, spectacled politico named Silvio Malazzo had broken away from the mainland Christian Democrats to lead an alliance of Christian Democrats, Communists, Socialists and Fascists. He is facing his first electoral test in June, and Sicily's Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini had asked the Vatican for ammunition...
...John Brown, a religious zealot who saw his rebellion succeed-for a time. A poor provincial schoolteacher, he rose to lead the Taiping Rebellion, which ravaged China between 1851 and 1864, and cost the lives of an estimated 20 million people. Since Hung was a professing if distinctly unorthodox Christian, who ruled some 30 million subjects at the peak of his power, he has left behind him one of the most tantalizing ifs in history: If he had toppled the Manchu Dynasty and mounted the Dragon Throne, would China be Christian today...