Word: crucifixes
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...milked dry their participation in the plot. The government put great emphasis on the role of the priests and the church in Betancourt's escape, and newspapers ran pictures of the captured Betancourt with the two friars, together with shots of his hiding place, with its prominently displayed crucifix and holy pictures. Many Cubans believe that this means a new anti-church campaign against the few Catholic priests still remaining in Cuba. Since taking power in 1959, Castro has whittled their numbers from 600 to 220. As if to confirm fears of a further crack down, the government announced...
...anti-Christian philosophers were ready to defend this paradise. The Encyclopedist Diderot warned that Europeans would despoil the Tahitians' Eden with "dagger and crucifix." The Rousseauian enthusiasts overlooked a few things: the Tahitians waged war and practiced human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism; they even had priests, an unamiable group who killed all their own offspring, apparently on trade-union principles...
...dosage and the purity of the drug are uncertain and the reaction of any individual is somewhat uncertain. He cited the case of a woman who, after taking the drug under his supervision, tore off her clothes and knelt before a thermostat which she believed was a crucifix. The experiment was then terminated...
...chant the ancient litany; from the throats of thousands of cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen came back the droning, prayerful response: "Pardon us, O Lord." At the rear of the procession, beneath a scarlet and gold baldacchino, walked Pope Paul VI dressed in red cope and carrying a crucifix in which were inlaid three tiny relics of the cross on which Christ died...
...classic Bolivian happening, part brute force and part black magic, asking more questions than it answered! A sea of gold braid, army olive and air-force blue swept silently out of the President's office, down one flight of stairs, and swirled around a small table bearing a crucifix. There, as his colleagues looked on, Air Force General Rene Barrientos solemnly swore in Army General Alfredo Ovando Candia as his co-President of Bolivia's ruling junta. Ovando, Barrientos dryly observed, came "from the very entrails of the army" and was a man worthy of his new position...