Word: ramming
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...Axes or Ram? But the parish priests were grieved. How could they minister to the parish if they heard no confessions? On the last Sunday of December, they had the satisfaction of reading from their pulpits a letter from Bernard Alfrink, the archbishop coadjutor of Utrecht. The letter announced that thereafter the Dominican chapel would be closed to the public and that the Dominicans would soon be moved to another district. Huissen's worried citizens wondered what to do. The town council had an idea: it sent a unanimous resolution to the papal nuncio in The Hague, asking...
...committee thought first of chopping the door down, then of battering it in with a ram, finally of just taking it off its hinges. D-day was set for Sunday at 5 a.m. But as the day drew near, everyone got the jitters. The burgomaster, feeling his responsibilities, grew nervous and asked for police reserves; he was promised 30 men for Sunday morning. The action committee countered by shifting H-hour to 1 a.m. But on Saturday afternoon, three young men of Huissen met in a café, decided that the police might easily forestall everything by arriving even earlier...
...Paso, Mrs. Julio Ramírez sobbed over the news of her son Ralph, a corporal: "Oh, how I hope it's true. I've prayed for him all the time. I can't wait until he comes home. Maybe then I'll be able to sleep nights...
...Rams, championship playoff victims two years running, started rewriting the script in the second half. Against a team that had never lost a championship game-the Browns won four straight titles in the defunct All-America Conference-the hard-charging Ram line kept Cleveland's famed quarterback, Otto Graham, constantly bottled up. At the end of the third quarter the Rams were tied, 17 all, with the mighty Browns. The payoff play: a 72-yd. scoring pass from Ram Substitute Quarterback Norman Van Brocklin to End Tom Fears. The new champions: the Rams, by a score...
...United States would see to it that famine in South Asia is alleviated, the Communists could not succeed in taking over control there, Ram Urgah Singh, Dean of the Lucknow Law School and member of the Indian Parliament, told a Law School Forum at Langdell Hall last night...