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Word: enfolded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white?the traditional color to signal that the secret conclave within had elected a Pope. But could it be true? Not likely?not on the opening day of the largest, most complex gathering of Cardinal electors in the long pageant of papal elections. Sure enough, with dusk beginning to enfold the splendid statues and pillars of the Bernini colonnade, the smoke turned blacker, then gray. Exasperated, the Vatican Radio announcer said, "There is still uncertainty about the color of the smoke." The crowd in St. Peter's Square swelled from 10,000 to 25,000 and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Swift, Stunning Choice | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...sure that anyone has done any better, which I suspect is what people always say, sometimes with a sly glance in the direction of the Almighty. But it would be interesting to know what dreams enfold the present occupants, the new men and women: the scullers now sculling on the river, down by the traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polonius in a single scull | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Whose sleeves do you enfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Furisode and So-Hitta | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...kind of psychograph may explain and link these three plays. Picture an adolescent growing up in a small town, probably in the Middle West. While sheltering him, his parental home gives him no rooted sense of identity and fails to enfold him in a warm, unconditional love. Drafted into the army, he cherishes the camaraderie but loathes the authoritarian procedures and is broodily apprehensive about his own possible death in combat. As an innocent, he is startled by his introduction to evil, or deviant, modes of conduct. He is forced to wonder if his friendship for his fellow soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: War Without End | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

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