Word: crosier
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...Archbishop of Salzburg raised his golden crosier, traced a great cross, murmured a blessing, then turned to the crowd and said: "It is done." As applause spattered across the courtyard in front of the Renaissance-baroque Salzburg Cathedral, one sturdy little man who was watching broke into a smile. For Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù, 49, the dedication one day last week of the 6,600-Ib. bronze doors for the cathedral ceremoniously closed the book on three years of intense, painstaking work...
Then French Canadians adopted baggataway and softened it up a little. But what the Canucks called lacrosse (because the stick looked like a bishop's crosier) was still mayhem on the lawn. Today, in its ultimate refinement, lacrasse is played by ten-men teams on fields 110 yards long. Modern players are not too proud to protect themselves with helmets, shoulder pads, arm pads and long, ribbed gloves. Almost anything goes in the effort to move downfield and toss an India rubber ball into a netted goal, 6 ft. square. The ball can be carried, thrown or batted with...
...named by French explorers, after a fancied resemblance between a baggataway stick and a bishop's crosier...
...speech entitled Physiology and Computational Devices, William J. Crosier, professor of General Physiology, cautions that so-called "thinking machines" such as the Mark III can never take the place of the human mind. No machine, he points out, could over not up a problem or analyze the results obtained through its own calculations...
...proceeded to the nearby Basilica of Notre Dame (the same church in which he had been baptised, confirmed, and ordained) for the ritual of enthronement. With all the solemnity that bespeaks the age-old traditions of the Church, the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Ildebrando Antoniutti, bestowed upon him the crosier, symbolic of his office, then led him to the archiepiscopal throne...