Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very Intemperate." When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took up Clare Luce's nomination in mid-April, it seemed likely that confirmation would be a simple formality; she had been confirmed unanimously by the Senate for her mission to Rome in 1953, and had come home with the praise of the Italians, of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and many a Democratic Senator. This time both the President and Secretary Dulles had given her warm endorsement, and Brazil's government and press had welcomed her appointment to Rio with notable enthusiasm...
...Coptic Church traces its tradition to St. Mark, who is believed to have brought Christianity to Egypt, and recalls the days when Alexandria was a rival to Rome as Christendom's foremost city. But the Copts' Monophysite theology (which holds that Christ has only a single nature in which the human and divine are blended) was eventually condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and with the emergence of Islam, Coptic Christianity virtually went underground for centuries...
...appeal for Catholic Charities. Born in Whitman, Mass., moonfaced, articulate Frank Spellman ran errands for his father's grocery, played sandlot baseball, boxed in a village barn, became an altar boy at the local church. After graduating from Fordham University ('11), he studied for the priesthood at Rome's North American College. He served in the Boston archdiocese before the Vatican summoned him in 1925. As first U.S.-born staff member of the State Secretariate, Spellman translated and delivered in English the first papal radio broadcast, stayed for seven years, part of that time as attache...
...heroine is flabbergasted to discover that her nephew never became a priest at all. He makes his living as a smalltime photographer and petty swindler, and he curses the old cook for ruining his life by sending him to a seminary. Shattered, the old woman makes a pilgrimage to Rome to do penance for what Werfel conceived as the sin of the century: the attempt to substitute power for love, money for meaning...
Emissaries from Rome. The battles known to history as "The Mithradatic Wars" went on for a quarter of a century. First Sulla, then Fimbria, and finally Lucullus smashed Mithradates' armies; the earlier massacre was repaid with the massacre of 300,000 of Mithradates' people. Mithradates flew for refuge to his son-in-law, King Tigranes of Armenia. A few years later, Tigranes marched forth at the head of 250,000 foot soldiers and 55,000 horsemen. To meet him went Rome's Lucullus with a mere handful of men-causing Tigranes to remark: "If these men have...