Word: cyrill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attended St. Cyprian's with George Orwell and Cyril Connolly and made his way into Harrow with honors by some inventive cheating on tests. At Cambridge, he was too concerned with applause to bother about academics. In his senior year, Vickers notes, Beaton was cast in drag for a student revue. "He began to practise high kicks for his show and found himself incapable of preparing for his exam: 'I've done absolutely no work!' Then he went to London to buy bright peppermint pink chiffon for his dress...
...another with a Pittsburgh physicians' group in 1982. When he arrived at Bethesda the following year, he had not performed open-heart surgery in six years. Nonetheless, the Navy permitted him to undertake such operations after only six months of retraining. Last month Monmouth's chairman of surgery, Dr. Cyril Arvanitis, revealed that he had begun to suspect Billig after examining weekly reports of patient deaths. "Dr. Billig's cases began to appear with increasing frequency," Arvanitis testified. "We kept seeing new cases, and his explanations weren't satisfactory...
...your paranoia about that leaked to the public, they would all realize how much of a threat the strike really is. Just remember the plan. Let us distract attention from the coal, diamond and gold miners with out economic sanctions. You may not have to worry too much anyway. Cyril Ramaphosa [general secretary of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers] says only 240,000 belong to the union, and your Chamber of Mines reports that figure at only 83,000. It may not go off too well...
...epistle, the fourth of John Paul's papacy, is titled Slavorum Apostoli (Apostles of the Slavs), and traces the evangelistic careers of the Greek- born brothers Methodius and Cyril on the 1,100th anniversary of their apostolates. In extolling the lives of Cyril and Methodius, John Paul referred to them as a "spiritual bridge between the Eastern and Western traditions." The two saints, he said, provide a model for the cultural and religious unity of Europe, a favorite theme of this pontificate...
...conducting religious persecutions, but his comment on the problems that beset the saints can be read as an allusion to the current trials of Catholicism in East bloc states. The Pope also appeared to be making a veiled reference to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe when he wrote that Cyril and Methodius "took as their own the difficulties and problems inevitable for peoples who were defending their own identity against the military and cultural pressure of the new Romano-Germanic Empire...