Word: monk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Filling out the team's strength are Howard Katz, Dave Claus, George Monk, Tim Walker, Lee Barnes, John Demos, Bob Brown, and Herb Parsons...
Murder in the Cathedral. And now began Becket's great transformation. He exchanged the scarlet of state for a monk's hair shirt. If he was merely playing a part, he utterly convinced his audience and, in the end, himself. He proudly recalled that the Archbishops of Canterbury had traditionally been protectors of the poor and oppressed, that St. Augustine had been the first to occupy the ancient see. Step by step, Becket fought the King's encroachments on church power; finally, in danger of his life, he fled to France in a rowboat. After six years...
...Marquis, 63, and his wife, 58, are about to abandon their sumptuous life. The Marquis will shave his well-groomed head and don the rough cowl of a Benedictine monk, and the Marquise will forsake her finery for the simple habit of the Little Sisters of the Ascension. In a monastery in central France, he will till the land with his brother monks, eat the simplest of foods, rise at night to chant the office. She will nurse the sick and aid the poor in parts of Paris where on past visits her limousine never brought her. They will never...
...Marquis and Marquise, who have been married 35 years, made their decision long ago, but wanted to wait until the last of their five children settled down. This week their youngest son, Geoffrey, 23, is to be married. Four of their children (the fifth is a Benedictine monk) will inherit the family fortune. The Marquis and Marquise said goodbye to their family in typical fashion-at a party. Said the Marquis: "I shall miss my hunting rifle most...
...wealthy Cuttack admirers, trustees of the Kaliaboda math, had persuaded him to appeal the sentence. He gave in, on the ground that the "high court is a little nearer God's justice than the lower court." But the people of Cuttack wanted no more of the mad monk. Said one: "Any sadhu who comes through here runs the risk of being stoned to death...