Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sickle will look like the moon under Our Lady's feet and the hammer like the cross from which Christ will forgive His persecutors." ¶Peking Communist magazine, China Youth, admitted to its readers that religious believers offer a special problem to brainwashers. "People can break any idol, but this won't wash the divinity off the brain of religious followers," said the magazine. "This must be done through persuasion and education . . . constant atheistic propaganda...
Butler's bronze Machine, I found that the construction and lines are very much like the old Danish idol sculpture Solvognen (Sun Wagon), dated...
...trying marriage for the fourth time-split their two-year-old union. The parting left Rita in shock, Dick in tears. To intimates, and to almost any reporter who would listen, Dick confided: "I love Rita. A man is only in love once, and she has been my idol for 18 years." That same night, with Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove packed by all the garish publicity, the bereaved husband fulfilled his engagement there, dedicated Come Rain or Come Shine "to my wife, Rita," feelingly crooned Love Me or Leave Me to thunderous applause...
...town last week was Alvin Krolik, 27, an Illinois-born artist. Like his idol, Vincent Van Gogh. Krolik found life a confusion. After Marine Corps service, he skidded downhill, ended by committing ten holdups in Chicago in 1953. Put on probation by a kindly judge, Krolik pulled himself together, went to a Franciscan monastery in Topawa. Ariz., there worked on 14 murals that won high praise. Then confusion returned. Fortnight ago in Tucson, Krolik bought a $55 pistol and holster and left for El Paso...
...spectators ignored a broiling sun and crowded the town fronton, as the pelota court is called. Kids clambered in the branches of chest nut trees to get a better view. This was the biggest pelota game of all: the championship match between a team led by Basque Idol Jean Urruty and a team headed by his closest competitor, Spanish Champion Valentin Careaga...