Word: kneeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bishops, or national councils of bishops, to handle matters that until now have to be bucked on to Rome. Some Catholic radicals have suggested that the church impose a retirement age for all prelates except the Pope, abolish the medieval vestments, titles and privileges (such as rings that Catholics kneel to kiss) that accompany the rank of bishop. Most bishops are unimpressed by the necessity of such sacrifice...
...skimpy ration of rice. Within two months. 300 of the prisoners died. In this and two other camps, Chan was continually in trouble. After writing a poetic lament for his pre-Communist life, Chan was denounced before a mass meeting of other prisoners, beaten, and forced to stand and kneel and stand again for hours. In 1960, while on a rock removal detail, Chan complained to the authorities that "corrupt cadres" were stealing the rice supposed to go to the prisoners. The government sent investigators who warned the cadres. Once the investigators were gone, Chan says, "the cadres fixed...
...Cuban civilians who work on the base were forced to pass. At 7 a.m. on Monday, as the first workers arrived, the shakedown began. Some men were stripped naked, each item of clothing carefully inspected for "documents." Others had their shirts or pants removed. Some were forced to kneel as tough Cuban guards emptied their pockets, spat at them, and shouted such things as "Why do you work for the Yankee bastards?" The inspection took 2% hours before all the Cubans got through, and in the evening, as cows grazed peacefully outside the chute, Guantanamo's Cubans waited...
...inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. They pour water on your head and that's a sacrament. When you are twelve you walk back in yourself with your best dress and shoes on, and you walk up to the Bishop, and he stands up, and you kneel down, and he mashes on your head and you are an Episcopal. Then you are supposed to increase in spirit." She added thoughtfully: "I tasted some of the bread in the choir room and it tasted just like my gold fish wafers...
...pressing of the flesh. Out went government directives ordering traditional greetings to replace handshakes. The orders were quickly countermanded, however, when an opposition M.P. gleefully announced, after boning up on traditionalist lore, that if the greeting were employed, a white woman meeting a black man would have to kneel down and kiss both his feet...