Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September 1953, Lenshina Mulenga walked into the Church of Scotland's Lubwa mission, about eight miles away from Kasomo. She was there, she said, because she had recently died; she had been about to cross the river into heaven when God stopped her and told her to go back and teach her people to give up witchcraft and repent their sins. She should go to Lubwa, said the Almighty, to be taught and baptized...
California. Not a single G.O.P. candidate for Congress won in the Democratic primary under the state's cross-filing system (although three Democrats won both nominations). In the Senate race, bland, middle-of-the-road Republican Thomas Kuchel (rhymes with treacle ), completing Richard Nixon's unexpired term, cross-filed for a second try: he polled 1,274,000 votes on the Republican ticket to win the nomination over cross-filing Democrat Sam W. Yorty, Los Angeles lawyer and ex-Congressman. On the Democratic ticket, State Senator Richard L. Richards, 39, free-swinging, liberal disciple of Representative James Roosevelt...
Catholic youth. Rocky Marciano is a fervent practicing Catholic . . . Many boxers, both in Italy and the U.S., cross themselves before entering the ring, which would be sacrilegious if boxing were es sentially immoral...
William Holden, wearing a mustache and a scowl, plays a hard-boiled Marine colonel who flourishes a swagger stick, derides the Red Cross for dishing out "sentimental slop" to his boys, eats out a chaplain simply because the troops, attending a prayer meeting called by the reverend, got sprayed by Japanese mortar shells...
Even worse, Holden makes crude physical advances to a sensitive, high-principled Red Cross girl (Deborah Kerr) who will only condescend to talk to him when he promises to tell her about the death of her husband on Guadalcanal...