Word: patronizing
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...JOHN OF CAPISTRANO Patron Saint of Military Chaplains John was a lawyer and a politician who also served in the military, fighting in the Siege of Belgrade and delivering Europe from the Turks...
...ISIDORE OF SEVILLE Patron Saint of the Internet Isidore, an education fanatic and voluminous writer, is also the patron saint of computer users and techies, so you can pray to him, whether it's an iMac, a PC or a beta version of Netscape that's crashing...
This Sunday, Pope John Paul II will name St. Thomas More the patron saint of politicians. His Holiness has canonized or beatified 1,441 people, and it seems the church is on a mission to make sure no prayer goes unanswered. Other saints named as patrons under his papacy...
...were playing the Giants, or then later they were playing the Dodgers. It was a rivalry renewed, and players developed histories within the Subway Series. DiMaggio played in six of them. Ruth, Mantle, Whitey Ford, Pee Wee Reese of the Dodgers, Jackie Robinson." The Subway Series even has a patron saint. Stengel was on the Giants' roster in the very first New York-New York Series, when both the Yanks and Giants played in the Polo Grounds in 1921. The Giants won that Series and the next year's too. In the first game of the 1923 Series, Stengel...
...adjustments to the 38-year embargo. Now that little Elian Gonzalez is back at school, the embargo remains the most useful tool in Castro's ideological shed: It provides both an all-purpose excuse for the privations suffered by his people since the collapse of Cuban socialism's Soviet patron, and a nationalist rallying point against the yanqui just across the water. And U.S. election years usually provide him with plenty of ammunition...