Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire (ret.), longtime physician to Franklin Roosevelt, was treated for bruises after he: 1) addressed the American Red Cross convention in San Francisco; 2) fell off the flower-banked speakers' platform...
Last year TIME research workers polled a representative cross section-those whose names began with the letters Fa-of all living college graduates. Of these, 9,064 filled out and returned a ballot asking 134 questions. Alphabetically, the sample ranged from Oliver Wendell Faaborg of Willmar, Minn., a University of Minnesota graduate ('35), to Marie T. Fazzone of Bridgeport, Conn., fresh out of Connecticut College for Women ('47). The oldest was 91, the youngest...
Elsewhere in Mexico, persecution of Evangelistas took other forms. In Mexico City, hooligans in an automobile shot the glass out of the electric cross on the roof of Bishop Ruesga's own Iglesia de Dios. In coffee-growing Chiapas, Evangelistas who protested the killing of one of their members were jailed while mobs sacked and burned their homes...
...Cross Porpoises. In Marineland, Fla., aquarium officials were distressed to learn that two porpoises they had shipped to Bimini, B.W.I, had become seasick en route...
...appointed day, in a ballroom of the royal palace, Archbishop Damaskinos, Primate and former Regent of Greece, lifted his jeweled cross for the groom and best man to kiss. Then the choir began the Orthodox hymn Devro Nymphi, Devro Nymphi-"Come bride! Come good bride, come pure bride, come, oh beautiful chaste bride...