Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration didn't give up on him. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Omaha, Daniel Sheehan, telephoned at White House request, asking Zorinsky to cast his vote for the treaties. The White House signaled Henry Kissinger, and the former Secretary of State was soon purring in Zorinsky's ear. Secretary of Treasury Mike Blumenthal telephoned to say that a Senate defeat of the treaties could adversely affect the value of the dollar in international trade. Vice President Walter Mondale, of course, talked to him. Repeatedly. This was getting to be heady stuff, and Zorinsky loved...
...Roman Catholic Church desires to explore the full meaning of Christ's divinity and humanity, but she realizes that man will never fully understand, because he is confronted with a mystery...
...Knox brothers. For Dilwyn, the second-born son, it meant breaking the vital German flag code in World War I and finding a crucial key to the Germans' baffling Enigma machine in World War II. For Ronald, youngest and most celebrated of the four, it meant translating a Roman Catholic English Bible-Old and New Testaments-from the Latin Vulgate. For Eldest Brother Edmund it meant a painstaking ascension to the Fleet Street pantheon as editor of Punch. Wilfred, the third-born son, chose a different sort of test. An Edwardian dandy who wore silk ties from London...
Religion became a crisis for all the brothers except Eddie. Dilly abandoned faith altogether. Wilfred deserted his father's Evangelical plainness for High Church Anglo-Catholicism with its in cense, vestments and Roman-style ritual. Ronnie dismayed everyone: in a passion ate search for authority, he "went over" to Rome, and became his adopted church's bright star as newspaper columnist, radio preacher and witty apologist for the faith. Somehow the family ties managed to survive. Even after Ronnie's conversion, the brokenhearted bishop could sign his letters, "With overflowing love, dearest...
...recommended the death penalty for a shockingly wide range of crimes and a "National Security" act that would protect at executive discretion almost anything within government purview. Under that legislation, for example, Daniel Ellsberg would have been jailed. After S. 1400 died, Senators John McLellan (D-Ark.) and Roman Hruska (R-Neb.), the national champion of mediocrity, co-sponsored a less strident version...