Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Movement, Suárez moved to legalize the Communist Party, convinced that the Communists were more of a threat outside the system than in it?and aware that there would be protests in Western Europe if they were barred from political participation. In a deft stroke of timing, he chose Easter weekend, when most of Spain was on holiday, to act. So stunning was the news that the Radio Nacional announcer sputtered through the first bulletin in disbelief...
...Their Knees. It has not. Since that prayer meeting on the Wednesday after Easter, busloads of people from as far away as Texas and California have flocked to the humble coal town of 12,000 to gaze at the Christ of the tabernacle cloth. One day a band of bejeweled gypsies roared up in a red Rolls-Royce, crawled on their knees to the altar, and left 13 dozen red roses as they departed. By last week the number of visitors had passed 60,000 (including repeaters), even though news accounts of the "miracle" cloth have been spotty. On weekends...
...crucial turnabout for Frost came during an agreed-upon seven-day Easter break in the interviewing. It was then that his staff was close to panic. Frost later conceded that he was "genuinely daunted before Easter" by Nixon. Frost had been partying as usual, leaving one taping to don a tux and emcee the Hollywood premiere of a movie he had helped produce. But then came the baiting challenge from Birt before the birthday party and a telling jest in one of the songs sung that night in Frost's honor. To the tune of Love and Marriage, it went...
...booming religious publishing business can boast some overnight bestsellers. A book version of Franco Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, for example, has sold 125,000 copies since its television showing at Easter. Even third-rate spiritual self-help books sell by the hundreds of thousands. At the same time, works of serious theology-like Maverick Swiss Catholic Theologian Hans Küng's treatise On Being a Christian-are receiving widespread attention. Some interesting new books...
When the Coast Guard later encountered the Shevchenko and the Snechkus, seizure was recommended by the State Department, and the President gave the green light. Carter explained his action to reporters who stopped him outside the First Baptist Church of Calhoun, Ga., where he was observing the Easter holidays. "We just had to draw the line somewhere," the President said...