Word: philippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affection for the Senator from Tennessee," he cooed at Gore. "He and I have a great deal in common, including bull-that is, Angus bulls."* When he successfully escaped from a semantics trap baited by Douglas, the Illinoisan tossed him a barbed Plutarchian salute: "We will meet again at Philippi." Cracked Kerr: "I hope we will meet in Washington before that." Occasionally, Kerr got as good as he gave. When Gore referred to "the liquidity position of the U.S. corporations," Kerr loftily called for a dictionary. Gore politely rephrased it: "Cash position," he said. "Oh," exclaimed Multimillionaire Kerr, "I know...
...centuries. At this synod, the patriarchs themselves will make canon law on such matters as litur gical revisions, calendar reform, theological minutiae, and relations between the churches. Thus the patriarchs themselves stayed away from Rhodes; the conference was presided over by venerable Chrysostom, 81, Metropolitan of Neapolis, Thasos and Philippi, and was actually run by an Athenagoras protégé-slim, black-bearded and also named Chrysostom, the Metropolitan of Myron-who served as the meeting's executive secretary. With true Orthodox grandiloquence, he said in his sermon at the opening Mass: "If I could characterize...
Little Black Bag. With each weary day, the campaign grew more bitter. Humphrey hinted darkly that his opponent was buying West Virginia votes. "I can't afford to run through this state with a little black bag and a checkbook," he cried in Kingwood. And again, at Philippi: "I don't think elections should be bought. Let that sink in deeply." But there was no more evidence of political payola than rumors and hints, and even less that the West Virginia vote could be bought at any price. Said a state official in Logan County: "This county...