Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emotional high points of John Paul's New York stay were a Tuesday evening Mass in Yankee Stadium and the Wednesday morning youth rally at Madison Square Garden. A crowd of 75,000 waited impatiently at Yankee Stadium, occasionally cheering a white-mitered bishop whom they mistakenly thought to be the Pope. John Paul finally appeared, 45 minutes late, in his white "Popemobile" (a rebuilt Ford Bronco truck) that slowly circled the field as the standing Pope extended his arms, first to one side, then the other, in blessing. People far out of his range of vision in the upper...
James Ross, a pottery teacher at the Catholic Bowling High School in West Des Moines, worked 110 hours in the last week making vessels for the papal Mass: a chalice, a plate for the Communion bread, a pitcher, a bowl for the washing of hands. Local carpenters crafted an altar and papal chair out of thick oaken beams salvaged from a 100-year-old barn...
Cormack said he believes physicians' demands for improvements in the device were responsible for keeping the prices high. Doctors, he said, continually asked for "the new and improved model" and this naturally drove up development costs...
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOOK. It's nicely printed on high-quality paper, and written lucidly enough to prove that not all government professors have the literary sensibilities of a chimpanzee. Instead, Michael Mandelbaum, associate professor of Government, has given us a description of America's nuclear history that is worse than bad. It is dangerous...
...commission has held hearings this fall on the contract award process, Miett said. He added he is more interested in hearings on corruption. "It's like a time bomb that we've been waiting for months to go off. That's what's going to blow the town sky high," he said...