Word: sackclothed
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...reason, according to Founding Father David Berg, alias "Moses David," has to do with the comet Kohoutek, which was supposed to herald catastrophe to the nation beginning on or about Jan. 31. In the weeks before doomsday, some of the Children of God appeared in red sackcloth at United Nations Plaza in New York City warning Americans to flee. A good many of the Children took their own advice, removing themselves also from the scrutiny of New York State's attorney general, whose charity frauds bureau last month issued a 23-page report on the sect and recommended that...
...from the world's greatest piece of art-or even Africa's. A 5-ft. 2½in. image of a king, it is rather crudely carved in iroko wood, the torso covered with sackcloth stitched with reddish-brown beads, the face masked in copper. But the Afo-A-Kom (literally, the Kom thing) is sacred to the approximately 30,000 people who constitute the Kom kingdom, a tribal enclave in the northwestern part of the Federal Republic of Cameroon...
...groups most upset by the impressive show of force were ultra-Orthodox Jews and Jerusalem's 70,000 Arabs. Members of a strict Jewish sect called Natorei Karta (Guardians of the Wall) dressed in sackcloth because the parade took place on the second Monday after Passover, a sacred day of fast. As for the Arabs, many regarded it as a bitter reminder of past defeats. "It was an Israeli invasion," grumbled one young Arab doctor, who watched the show on television...
...lest their members be forced to choose between God and mammon. Yet they badger businessmen to support them with handouts of money and supplies, while raging against a sinful America and proclaiming its-and the world's-imminent doom. In their most apocalyptic moments, they dress in red sackcloth (a sign of warning), daub themselves with ashes, put yokes around their necks. With the prophet's traditional staff, they stand silent vigils in public places, breaking their silence only to utter an occasional...
...picked up a wide underworld acquaintance of pals during his earlier days as a young street brawler, a rifleman in Indo-China and a merchant sailor. For Stevan, it was an amusing existence, but it came to an abrupt end last fall. In early October, a ragpicker found his sackcloth-swathed corpse in a garbage dump at Elancourt, near Versailles...