Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts, an anonymous worshiper at St. Barbara's Church in Woburn began placing fresh flowers at the statue of the church's demoted patron saint. A woman in a crowded Naples streetcar invoked the name of St. Januarius - the city's patron - when the car suddenly stopped and slammed passengers together. A few seconds later, she changed her tone in disgust. "The devil with San Gennaro! He's no good any more. My poor saint...
Dorothy B. Chandler, L.H.D., patron of the arts and former California regent...
...seems strange that the church should make the feasts of the patrons of Uganda and Japan mandatory while making optional the feast of the Irish patron, St. Patrick...
...Space Odyssey than to Walt Disney's Fantasia, it is the sort of work that might well fill the extra channels on the cable antenna systems of the future. Eager to "take the waste out of the wasteland," Thomas Tadlock, 28, spent two years and a patron's $10,000 to create his Archetron. The result is a studio-size console, with 46 knobs and controls and four screens, that scrambles the signals of standard programming to produce an endless flow of kaleidoscopic images. Both Siegel and Tadlock are working toward what Nam June Paik, 36, a Korean...
...dines bei Ria so often that she refers to him familiarly as "der Willy" and sees to it that his after-dinner coffee always contains the shot of rum he favors. At another table may be West German President-elect Gustav Heinemann. Berlin's Mayor Klaus Schiitz, a patron since his days in the Bundestag, is always seated at the same table overlooking the garden: he usually wants fresh pineapple for dessert. With Bavarian gusto, Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss is fond of dropping in for post-midnight salami, black bread, beer and Steinhager...