Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brick-and-mortar improvements as rapid-transit extensions, street and alley lighting, and 63 miles of new sewers. As the city-hall machine moved into overdrive, bank depositors found among their canceled checks flyers urging a yes vote, police and firemen trod sidewalks distributing literature, and Chicago's Roman Catholic Archbishop John P. Cody resorted to the pulpit to plug the measure. Result: the bonds passed by a 2-to-1 margin...
...Roman Catholic committee founded by Samuel Cardinal Stritch in 1954 to integrate Spanish-speaking Chicagoans into the religious and social life of the city...
...tricks of his own. When the government clamped down on a 15-mile pilgrimage from Katowice to Piekary by banning walking between the two cities, the pilgrims mobilized everything on wheels and carried passengers on fenders, hoods and rooftops. "If the government respects the rights of the Roman Catholic Church," Cardinal Wyszynski told a huge audience in Piekary, "then we will respect the government. But if the balance is upset, we do not take responsibility for the future...
...French farce that never stops long enough to be ticketed for its frequent wrong turns. In the title role, France's mononymic comedian Bourvil has too much worldly charm and intelligence to make a convincing jerk, yet he is hilarious all the same as he takes a sexy Roman manicurist to dinner and absently dips his fingers in a water glass when she asks to hold his hand...
...towers, by assault. Besieged in Antioch by a superior army of the atabeg of Mosul, the Crusaders were saved by a miracle of their own faith. Fired by the conviction that an old, rusty piece of iron unearthed beneath an Antioch church was the lance with which the Roman soldier had pierced the side of the crucified Christ, the Crusaders, half-starved and crazed with religious fanaticism, swept out of the city and routed the Turks. Afterward, Bohemond of Taranto ordered the severed heads of captured Turks roasted on spits, "encouraging the rumor that the Prankish barons fed on human...