Word: pilgrimate
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...taste or smell; became deaf in childhood) first saw "the dim shore" of her destination as "a long line of the New Jersey coast, with distinguishable trees and white houses." "I was taken by surprise," she wrote, "by my own emotions. All that I had heard of the Pilgrim Fathers, of the old colonial days, of the great men of the Revolution, and of the busy, prosperous succeeding days stirred up my mind...
...hope and effort) advanced one cautious step last week. Two U.S. Protestant churches, each the result of a successful merger last decade, announced they had taken the first step toward merger. One is the Congregational Christian Churches (1,049,575 members), which in 1931 united the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620 with a Methodist offshoot founded in North Carolina in 1793. The other is the Evangelical and Reformed Church (685,571 members), formed in 1934 by combining the Evangelical Synod (a Midwestern fusion of Lutheran and Calvinistic thought, not to be confused with the Evangelical Church, which...
Said the India Government: "A pilgrim ship is slow and crowded and their sailings and destinations would be matters of public knowledge. Owing to the difficulty of enforcing a blackout in a pilgrim ship [the majority of the passengers cook, sleep and live on deck] they cannot be taken in convoy with other vessels. . . . In case of anything happening to the ships the loss of life will be heavy...
...Pilgrim Father stayed home from the Thanksgiving service with which Bradford started America's Thanksgiving Day tradition, Dec. 13 (Old Style), 1621. But only one person in 60 is expected to turn out for this year's Thanksgiving service in the town where Thanksgiving started. At that, Plymouth's turnout will probably be above the national average, for in this century Thanksgiving has been secularized into an occasion for turkey, football games, department-store parades...
...history's most famous ride. But it was not till the following week that piccolos squealed Yankee Doodle over the Berlin short-wave and a sound-effects man clopped coconut shells in simulation of furious galloping. Then, under the name of Paul Revere, "an unknown American of Pilgrim ancestry" took to the air and began in English to gabble for Goebbels...