Word: patronism
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...deeply religious answer to its own questions, American religious groups have unanimously blasted it. The picture places a group of Anglican nuns in a remote part of the Himalayas, where Western morality and religion simply do not exist. Their convent has once been a local emperor's harem, their patron is the conscience-stricken emperor, who pays his subjects to go the convent, and the nuns are a group of mortals, frightened by the strange place but determined to fulfill their duties and to care for the people. The lascivious atmosphere works steadily to erode their layer of self-imposed...
...Machine. In Providence, Bus Terminal Agent Harold Waterman told police that a determined patron dropped a nickel in a vending machine, got nothing, shook it, still got nothing, picked it up and carried...
...them all. So resistance to the Reds takes many forms. Some of them are in the Communists' own conspiratorial patterns. A reporter tracing anti-Communist forces in Milan this month could begin in the Great Hall of Sacred Heart University, on the day of Milan's patron saint, and arrive by a fairly short line at a midnight session with machine guns of the Catholic underground...
...crowd cheered the Monsignor's final words-the message of Cardinal Schuster himself, who sat a few feet away tightly clasping his cross: "It is the duty of every right-thinking man to support the Government in its difficult struggle. . . . Let the Milanese be worthy followers of their patron St. Ambrose. May St. Ambrose protect Milan...
...Governor Wallace.' " To keep the Kid from being tagged as an informer, he was (by his own planning) captured, arrested on a charge of cattle-stealing, imprisoned comfortably in the Patron Store. He testified, then grew doubtful of Wallace's promise to safeguard him, and escaped before his own trial...