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MacStiofáin showed no signs of abandoning his fast. As the sentence was passed he aroused himself and pounded the railing of the dock. "I have taken no liquid and no food since my arrest. I'll see you in hell before I submit," he croaked at the judges. "I shall be dead within six days. Live with that...
...chronological order; as we view them, we tend to look for the progressive formation of new icicles. When we discover the water was later used for the photos, we are freed from closing our concept on its frozen form. We now look at the icicles as both solid and liquid. The pictures embody two concepts...
Cardinal Ursi triumphantly elevated the reliquary encasing the vial. An attendant, seeing the frothy liquid, happily waved his handkerchief at the congregation (it is considered a good omen if the blood bubbles or froths). A beaming priest applauded. The cathedral bells were rung. The congregation, with restrained excitement, continued to pray in thanksgiving...
...calendar in 1969, along with St. Christopher and some other saints whose existence was in doubt. Since then Cardinal Ursi, who is Archbishop of Naples, has been trying to down-play the celebration. Among other things, he has persuaded the congregation to refrain from roaring its approval when the liquid bubbles. But recently, a new encyclopedia labeled the San Gennaro spectacle a "residue of paganized Christianity which the church has not managed to remove from Neapolitan usage...
...Tissot and other watches, he has fired hundreds of workers to cut costs, merged with the country's major producer of inexpensive watches to meet increasing competition from the U.S. and Japan, bought out one U.S. firm (Hamilton) and entered into a joint venture with another (Optel, a liquid-crystal maker). "Some people call me the ugly American of Swiss industry," he says. "But you can't run a business on the basis of national glory...