Word: placet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vatican's red damask Consistorial Hall, pink-cheeked Clemente Cardinal Micara rose and begged the Pope's permission to close her case. One by one the assembled cardinals rose and bowed to the papal throne; then, as the Pope asked each one for his opinion, each murmured "placet" (it pleases). The canonization, say church authorities, will almost certainly take place within the next year...
...Placet. Two days later he took off in the President's Sacred Cow. "I'll do my best," he promised Harry Truman...
...with a degree of Doctor of Civil Law and broke a tradition by letting him witness the ceremony of his election by the doctors and heads of Oxford's colleges. Would the doctors give the degree to "a man most brilliant in war and peace?" Intoned the doctors: Placet...
...modern equivalent is the Baccalaureate Sermon), and then marched in solemn procession into the university church where Commencement was held. The presiding officer read each candidate's name aloud and asked the assembled Masters of Arts if it pleased them to have him admitted to their fraternity. They replied "placet" or "non placet," and if the "placets...