Word: feasting
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...always return, whether trachoma need be as prevalent as the common cold, whether men and women must forever be debilitated by malnutrition and malaria. To her, the answer lay in Jeremiah's second question. In Jerusalem there were only twelve doctors; in all Palestine only 45. On the Feast of Purim in February 1912, Henrietta Szold rallied U.S. women Zionists into an organization she called Hadassah (original Hebrew name for Queen Esther), made the betterment of Palestine's health its prime goal...
...that the Pope failed to attend. Travel-hungry Pope John was reported to have at last decided that such a precedent-breaking foreign excursion would inevitably bring demands for more papal visitations. One feature of the conference was the celebration of the early Christian custom of agape, or love feast, in Munich parish homes and in its famed beer hall, the Hofbräuhaus, where some 900 people watched the papal legate, Gustavo Cardinal Testa, move smilingly among them, passing out hard rolls to be eaten with cold ham and roast veal accompanied by Palatinate wine...
...third, telling how he fashioned Sharon's ring into a barbless hook and caught seven trout. Breathlessly, Boyd reported the discovery of a set of deer horns, a hunter's cache of cooking gear, a squirrel's cache of nuts-and described a family feast of frogs' legs provided...
...vestments, and crowns, diadems and tiaras given to the priests by Ethiopia's rulers as ceremonial offerings for military victories or upon their accession. Hung on the limestone walls and pillars of the church are three striking Madonnas (see color) that are kept covered with canvas, except on feast days, to preserve their brilliant colors...
...delights those who feel that "a dirty mind is a continual feast." The modern critics of Shakespeare argue that he lacks a point of view. T. S. Eliot charges that his philosophy was "inferior" to Dante's; G. B. Shaw finds that he offers no message of social uplift, and ranks him below G. B. Shaw...