Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope Pius XII was presented with a little token of esteem by 700 cheering motor scooter enthusiasts: a shiny, bright blue motor scooter...
After reading that Pope Pius had decorated [William Randolph] Hearst, for "civic qualities, comprehension of spiritual values, and devotion to humanity" [TIME, Sept. 26], I gave up on the human mind and decided henceforth to take all my problems, spiritual and otherwise, to the new electronic thinking machine. I must say, it didn't do too badly on the first test to which I put it; when asked to compute the odds on the infallibility of a pontiff who could thus reward the unspeakable Mr. Hearst, it ground out the answer in jig time...
...delegates' differences were resolved when they went to Castel Gandolfo. There, Pope Pius XII gave the church's approval to Bacala's views. Obtaining semen by unnatural means was wrong, said the Pontiff, even for married couples. But medical aid to get the semen from the vagina into the uterus, after normal intercourse, was permissible...
...Pope Pius XII, in a busy week, found time to grant an audience to Jersey Joe Walcott, and a papal decoration for "civic qualities, comprehension of spiritual values, and devotion to humanity," to William Randolph Hearst...
Retired Politico James A. Farley, on a trip to Europe, dropped in at Castel Gandolfo for a call on Pope Pius...