Word: ruina
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...enemies broadcast pictures of Mary "almost naked, wrinkled and uncomely, suckling Spaniards at her breast, and round about, the legend : Maria Ruina Angliae." There was truth in the legend, for never had England sunk so low, militarily and financially, never had she known such general instability and discontent. And never had Mary herself sunk so low in her own esteem. Her handsome husband, after perfunctorily doing his duty in the hope of providing England with a Catholic heir, walked out on her when she proved barren. Calais, England's proud outpost in France, fell to the French...
...Little Hitch. A thunderous applause greeted the bishop. To show that there was no prejudice, tall, dark Monsignor Alibio Ruina announced that the Communist mayor of Bolsena, the little town nearby where the miracle had occurred, would be invited to the procession. The church, which had won the day, could afford to be generous...