Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese flags, cheered his motorcade through city streets and cascaded him with carnations. Hua, who normally masks his emotions, visibly relaxed and enjoyed himself. He pumped hands and strode into reeking cow stalls at a big farm cooperative to question workers. At a special musical program, he saw and heard, probably for the first time in his life, a long-haired youth plucking a guitar and singing folk melodies, 16th century chamber music and a dazzling variety of Yugoslav folk dances. The biggest Chinese applause, as well as barely suppressed giggles, was reserved for a somewhat faulty-if brave-Yugoslav...
...squeals and hums. Some of this noise came from so-called radio galaxies that were all but invisible in the mirrors and lenses of ordinary optical telescopes. Other signals came from the distant and powerful quasars. At Bell Telephone Labs, scientists working on a new satellite communications system even "heard" a low-level microwave hiss that may be lingering radiation of the Big Bang...
...read out his first apostolic blessing, the traditional benediction, urbi et orbi (to the city and to the world). His high voice quavered a bit as he chanted the Latin in lilting Gregorian style. Before the blessing, the new Pope made an unusual gesture, granting "to all" who heard the words?either in person or by broadcast?a plenary indulgence. In Catholic belief, all sins, though forgiven, must be atoned for?either here on earth or, after death, in purgatory. For those truly repentant, a plenary indulgence cancels the debt for all past sins...
...news circled the world, most Catholics admitted knowing little about their new leader. London's Sunday Times headlined him as THE UNKNOWN POPE. "We have never heard of him here," said James Reuter, a leading Jesuit in the Philippines. But he added, "At least we are thankful it is not some of the others." In Little Rock, Ark., Bishop Andrew J. McDonald heard the news from a priest and was forced to look up Luciani in a church directory. The rapid decision, quipped the bishop, "just shows that the Holy Spirit is quicker than the speed of light...
...Cardinals, in scarlet chasubles and gleaming white miters, flowed out of the transept in two slow-moving files, a four-year-old girl in the crowd was heard to ask, "Which one is the Pope?" Replied her father: "One of them is?but they haven't decided which...