Word: pontius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before long, Premier Amintore Fanfani felt called upon to protest to the British Foreign Office. When the F.O. refused responsibility for Monty's opinions, Rome's Fascist ll Secolo snapped: "Pontius Pilate, sneering, washes his hands in the Thames." The Greeks, indignant about Cyprus and eager to join in any British-baiting, jumped in with praise of the "fighting spirit," in offense and defense, of the Italians who invaded Greece in 1940. Last week, at the personal request of British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Monty penned a letter to the British Ambassador in Rome, which he said...
...face." Yet Christ is currently much in evidence on British TV. Most startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached in a well-pressed lounge suit, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette after he signed Christ's death warrant. The Roman soldiers were simple types in British battle dress...
...blamed U.S. administrative bungling for failure to give Girard full benefit of the status-of-forces agreement. The Hearst New York Journal-American thought that "the basic rights of this American soldier have been violated." New York's tabloid Daily News roared that the Supreme Court, "like Pontius Pilate . . . has washed its hands . . . This stinking affair has disgusted tens of millions of us." The News admonished Congress to get busy with remedial legislation. And Ohio's Senator John Bricker telegraphed to every Sunday paper in his home state his renewed determination to fight for his Bricker amendment, which...
...Credo," responded Publius. "I believe that my salvation comes from Jesus the Christ, Who was crucified under Pontius Pilate. With Him I die that with Him I may have Eternal Life." Then he felt strong arms supporting him as he let himself fall backward into the pool, and heard Marcus' voice in his ear-"I baptize you in the Name of the Lord Jesus"-as the cold water closed over...
...backslid leftist playwright named Harvey Crane. For an imminent production, he has raised $300,000 (a multiple of the 30 pieces of silver, and thus a big symbol). Then he is asked to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, whose chairman may be assumed to be Pontius Pilate. Hollywood is the fleshpots of imperial Rome. Villainous lawyers and venal politicians ("For a thousand dollars you can buy a Senator") gnash their teeth in the wings, and of course Judas Crane lets his old party pal have it (after a Last Supper at Sardi...