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...rain started at half-time, an increasingly hard rain mixed with a fine hail. But before the flood really broke at the beginning of the fourth quarter, lightning had struck twice more...
...celebrated ecdysiast, bequeathed to a certain statue of the Virgin Mary "the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that by fingering them one after another she might count her prayers exactly." In the 12th century, the prayer now known as the Hail Mary* came into general use, and the beads began to be associated with the Virgin and take on something like their present form. The rose is Mary's flower, and the beads took their present name from the Latin rosarius: a garland of roses...
...Weapon. A set of rosary beads is divided into five groups called decades, with ten beads per decade. In saying the rosary, the user recites ten Hail Marys for each decade, meditating as he does so on a meaningful episode in the life of Christ or Mary, known as a "mystery." Each decade begins with the Lord's Prayer and ends with a Gloria ("Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end"). In a full recitation, which takes...
...Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death...
...Allied "spy catcher" in two wars, a Dutch-born counterintelligence expert whose command of 13 languages and tenacious memory ("I can still remember not only what presents were given to me on my third birthday but who gave them and when they arrived") led SHAEF Commander Dwight Eisenhower to hail him as "the greatest living authority on security"; of chronic bronchitis; in London...