Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catastrophe shuddered through the cobbled streets of Marcinelle, fire engines and ambulances, jeeps packed with police in steel helmets, and scurrying hundreds of horrified people, rushed to the pit. Italian women were shrieking, "We want our men!", praying "Santa Maria! Santa Maria!" Black-robed priests and Red Cross nurses moved about beneath a spreading pall of coal dust and grime...
Vientiane-capital of the least of the three nations carved out of French IndoChina-lay in its habitual half-slumber beside the Mekong River. It was the Buddhist Lent in Laos. Temple gongs bonged in the viscous humidity; saffron-robed monks strutted about beneath gaudy parasols or sat cross-legged in the shade, puffing acrid French tobacco and sipping lemonade. Suddenly there was a stir. Official limousines swept out of the royal palace amid shrieking sirens and flapping royal banners (a three-headed elephant against a red background), bearing Prime Minister Prince Souvanna Phouma to the airport to meet...
...though the news had obviously been leaked by worried Burmese army officers. Finally, bit by bit. the government began to admit facts which it had been suppressing for more than a year. The Chinese "invasion," said the government, was limited to the Wa States, where Red troops began to cross the border in the 1954-55 winter. By May of last year, Chinese Communist forces had established semipermanent outposts inside the Wa States, and in November a Burmese army column on routine "flag march" in the Wa country was attacked by a Chinese force which finally retired after suffering...
Hold to Spiritual Truths. With this chilling announcement. Takikawa and his fellows set to work. Archaeologists surveyed pit dwellings and caves. Shinto researchers examined shrines, pored over ancient manuscripts. Anthropologists cross-examined villagers about festival and harvest customs. Sociologists peered at pots and looms...
...Rome, the Vatican looked with distaste at another kind of fashion problem: the adaptation of a cardinal's dress, complete with chain, pectoral cross and red biretta, as part of the line of Fontana Sisters, topflight Roman couturieres. "The frantic search for novelties," declared an official Vatican spokesman, "has deprived fashion in general, and Italian fashion in particular, of its artistic requirements. This frivolous imitation of a cardinal's attire is simply grotesque...