Word: feasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George's statue, Scouts marching past the sovereign on St. George's Day will think no less of their patron, but they will think less kindly of Rome." In Washington, D.C., the Russian Orthodox community expressed its feelings by packing the church for a May feast day honoring St. Nicholas. Some Orthodox churchmen complained that Rome insulted their faith by unilaterally downgrading saints who were especially revered by Eastern Christianity...
...seems strange that the church should make the feasts of the patrons of Uganda and Japan mandatory while making optional the feast of the Irish patron, St. Patrick...
...literally billions of miles with Catholics, Protestants, Jews and even agnostics, he was one of 46 saints who were dropped from the calendar because there is no proof that they ever existed. Though they are still considered saints, the hierarchy can no longer officially require observance of their former feast days...
Other saints-like the Roman martyr Valentine, Bishop Nicholas of Myra (the original Santa Claus), England's patron St. George and Ireland's redoubtable St. Patrick-may still have mandatory feast days on national calendars but are now "optional" on the universal church calendar. Now mandatory on this worldwide calendar, however, are the feasts of such pointedly non-Caucasian saints as Paul Miki of Japan and the Martyrs of Uganda...
Farming has been a feast-or-famine business for almost as long as history has recorded harvests. Today's bins of surplus food serve as pointed reminders that most agricultural policies are inadequate, inconsistent and archaic. The cost of subsidized farming in the Common Market is more than $2 billion a year; in the U.S. it is $3.6 billion. Yet prices are erratic, and people go hungry. Agricultural technology has shown that the Malthusian apocalypse of starvation can be avoided. The immense task now for the producers is to devise the economic and political conveyor belts that could...