Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week-long festivities of the Moslem sacrificial feast known as Eid-ul-Azha had not yet ended. Suddenly one evening as Pakistanis gathered in their local mosques for prayers an earthquake rumbled across the northern part of the country. Within moments, thousands of buildings collapsed into rubble, and some mountain villages were practically wiped from the map. By the time the tremors finally stopped 24 hours later, at least 5,100 people were dead, and more than 15,000 injured...
...Coptic Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, which still observes a peculiar 13-month calendar all its own, celebrates the feast of Christmas this week. The country could hardly have less to make merry about. Eleven months after the "creeping coup" that resulted in Emperor Haile Selassie's overthrow and imprisonment last September, Ethiopia remains one of the poorest and least literate nations on earth. The average annual income is a pitiful $80, and fewer than 3% of the 26 million Ethiopians can read or write. In the beginning, the 120-man Provisional Military Administrative Council that now rules the country...
Your treatise on the American pet was well researched and must have been a real "love feast" for all pet lovers. But when I see Mr. Warhol posing with the stuffed Great Dane, I begin to wonder where fancy ends and grotesqueness begins...
...White House from Gerald Ford in 1976. And though some of the old intramural conflicts still struck sparks, the downs and ups seemed to have modulated the party: compromise, conciliation, even-for Democrats in conclave-an unwonted decorum dominated what in the end turned into a virtual love feast in Kansas City's red, white-and blue-festooned Municipal Auditorium...
When the nation's stuffed sports fans waddled their way from the Thanksgiving table to their television sets, they were settling in for the third of a ten-course weekend football feast. Pitt and Penn State squared off at Pittsburgh's frigid Three Rivers Stadium* at the unlikely (but prime) hour of 9 p.m. The game time was arranged by ABC, which split almost $500,000 between the two schools to convince them that rescheduling the contest from a 1:30 p.m. start the previous Saturday made eminent sense. Penn State finally disposed of Pitt...