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Word: hails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Holy Year in 1950, indulgences were still much on the mind of pilgrims as they visited St. Peter's and three other basilicas, reciting the required number of Our Fathers and Hail Marys. In 1975, a full ("plenary") indulgence is still offered to pilgrims who pray in at least one of the basilicas, or to persons who join local pilgrimages if they are unable to travel to Rome. In the new interpretation that emerged out of Vatican II, Pope Paul has emphasized that the church's aim in granting indulgences is not only to "expiate" deserved punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Road to Rome | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...king's enlightened path is always blocked by problems. One of them is a movable castle full of French knights who defend their ramparts by shouting down intolerable sexual insults and pelting would-be attackers with a hail of dead farm animals-most unchivalrous. Another obstacle is a Black Knight of uncompromising combativeness; after Arthur has severed all four of his limbs, the knight perversely insists on trying to bite the king on the ankle. Then there are the guardians of a sacred forest who demand a tribute of shrubbery -something with "a nice layered effect"-before allowing Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Legendary Lunacy | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

Look-outs were calling down from a red hail of cinders...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Hot in the Smithy Of Irish Poetry | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

...were to the Monkees). Anyway, just returned from the Big Apple, and featuring the incomparable Spacey John Macey on pedal steel, John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mask, Boys, presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Friends of Country, Country-Western, and Western Swing. A Country Dance, at Mather House Dining Hail, one dollar, BYOS, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Friday night...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Rock | 5/8/1975 | See Source »

Several members of the Corporation have previously said that they would be reluctant to publicly hail the Strauch report until they were sure that the Trustees would not criticize them as not offering enough assurance that the numbers of women students, faculty and administrators will be increased rapidly...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Corporation and Trustees Jointly Hail Equal Access | 5/2/1975 | See Source »

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