Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned they were most puzzled by the differences between the major sects of Christianity. Hedley's resulting sermons boosted chapel attendance about 25%. As he described each sect, Methodist Hedley did his best to approximate its ritual; i.e., for his sermon on Quakers he took down decorations and cross, sat in a business suit in the front...
...storks, vultures, rats - into a small game reserve deep in the forest. They will not be slaughtered, though many surely will be killed before the drive ends. Ultimately the reserve will be ringed by a cordon sanitaire of cleared ground, two miles wide, which the tsetse presumably will not cross...
Better than Vienna, G.I.s liked Salzburg with its mossy stone and patinaed copper. The Red Cross had moved into the Mirabell Casino, and G.I.s listened to symphony concerts in the Mirabell Castle's gardens.* Then, oblivious to the echoes of Mozart's minuets, they jitterbugged in the old, staid Hotel Pitter, which had suddenly acquired something known as the Sky Haven Garden...
...born in Barcelona, plays Cuban rhythms watered-down and violin-perfumed, but with enough gourd rattling to make them sound authentic. For this the Cuban Government regards him as an ambassador of culture-with the title of Commander in the Order of Honor and Merit of the Cuban Red Cross...
Notre Dame's vice president for the past six years, Father Cavanaugh will now be president for six. The Holy Cross Congregation, which runs Notre Dame, likes to shake up its administrators regularly. Notre Dame's outgoing president, the Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, will get an academic assignment abroad...