Word: gora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more tickets left." Buses and cars were stopped for endless roadside identity checks, detours and delays. Yet, despite the obstacles thrown up by Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime, some 300,000 devout Poles last week came by bus, car, train, horseback, buggy, bicycle or foot to the Jasna Gora monastery, the nation's most sacred shrine, which stands on a high hill overlooking Czestochowa. On May 3, the traditional Polish national holiday, the pilgrims prayed and sang before a giant outdoor altar through some twelve hours of Masses, sermons and processions that began in steamy, 90° midday...
...regime: the need for Poles to forgive neighboring Germany for its World War II crimes and forget the historic enmities that divide the two peoples. "We stand on Calvary," preached Wyszynski in the moonlight, "and hear Christ's words of forgiveness for those who crucified him. From Jasna Gora, we the Polish bishops, and God's representatives, we also forgive." "We forgive," the crowd thundered back, and the fields echoed with applause...
...decade to solemnly celebrate the nation's conversion to Christendom 1,000 years ago this year. Religious ceremonies are scheduled for many parts of the country, but the highlight will come May 3, the Polish national holiday, when thousands of Poles will journey to the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, home of the nationally cherished "Black Madonna." The Communist regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka, which has conducted a running feud with the church, is desperately anxious to avoid or at least diminish any public demonstration of Roman Catholic power in Poland. Last week, as the church began the first...
...Communist government. Polish officials urged him not to see the cardinal, insisting it would be against the best interests of U.S.Polish relations. Kennedy disagreed, pointed out he was a Catholic on a private trip to Poland. He and the cardinal talked for an hour at the Jasna Gora monastery in southern Poland...
...Poland's red-faced commissars, the country's drinking problem is no laughing matter. Radio Warsaw commented that in the province of Zielona Gora, workers lost 130,000 man-hours in a recent three-month period because of absenteeism, much of it "from the abuse of alcohol." Teen-age rowdyism is even more worrisome. One newspaper said 80% of Polish hooliganism could be traced to alcohol, while a Gdansk poll turned up even more remarkable statistics: among 5,000 youngsters aged 7 to 14, as many as 42% drank occasionally and 20% frequently...