Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diamond-studded bands, one to go on each side of her engagement ring. Instead of one bridal bouquet there will be two, one for Luci to throw and one for her to lay-at her request-at the foot of a statue of St. Agatha, a patron saint of nurses. Lady Bird Johnson, who was married on the day she gave her first unequivocal yes, by a pastor she had never met, with a $2.50 ring hastily bought at Sears, Roebuck, says a touch wistfully: "The wedding day will be something beautiful to remember, and I want Luci to have...
...latter-day Rome," Paisley sneered to his followers before marching off to the jail, "once again dips her hands in the blood of saints, and is drunk with the blood of saints." The saint would return, Paisley promised, and even run for Parliament. Within hours, fresh signs blossomed on buildings and sidewalks: "Paisley for Prime Minister." And by week's end, angry mobs of Protestants had taken to the streets, smashing windows, overturning cars, and battling police...
Pompidou meanwhile has been given the task of leading the U.N.R. in the next French elections for parliament in March of 1967. In preparation, Pompidou has skipped his usual summer with the bikini set at Saint-Tropez this year, is already skimming the country in helicopters, cigarette plastered to his lower lip, campaigning. He has his work cut out for him. Public-opinion surveys show that the Gaullists are still France's leading political party, with some 30% of the voters' support. In parliamentary elections, that could well translate into as few as 150 seats...
...acts--thus to the Tower. Falsely convicted of open denial of the King's supremacy over the Church, he loses his head. This much is familiar. But, we ask, why? Why does Sir Thomas follow the path of martyrdom that four hundred years later was to make him Saint Thomas? This is the question that Bolt explores in his splendid play and to which I muse essay an answer...
...little Loire valley town of Saint-Bouize, where the good life consists of lolling in the two local bistros and sipping the cool white wines of Sancerre and Pouilly, Farmer Georges Delair's motorbike accident was a particular tragedy. The day an auto knocked him over the handle bars onto his head, life turned drab indeed for the large, affable man. Pains in his head and neck impaired his work. Even worse, the 33-year-old Delair told the court: "Before, white wine made me gay, joyous and optimistic. Now it gives me terrible headaches, and after...