Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times, in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wyoming, Kennedy seemed to be trying harder to invoke the conservationist image of Republican Theodore Roosevelt than of the Democratic Party's openhanded patron saint, F. D. Roosevelt. Kennedy seemed ill at ease in this guise-and his audiences sensed...
...languid Leo X of the Renaissance grandly received his subjects on horseback while at the hunt, and Pius IX had his own railway car to make whistlestop visits through the papal states. The general audiences of the ascetic Pius XII were like an encounter with a saint. John XXIII's were folksy-until sickness and duty made him give them up. The mood of Pope Paul's audiences is somewhere in between, and they draw unprecedented throngs to St. Peter's every Wednesday morning, sometimes Saturday as well...
Thirteen centuries later, Philip II defeated French forces at the battle of San Quentin. By that victory he turned the tide to bring the Spanish Empire to its highest glory. Because it took place on Lorenzo's feast day, Philip decided to put up a monument to the saint, the empire and God - built on the plan of a. gigantic gridiron...
There in the clubhouse he sat, in his undershirt, a snaggle-toothed grin giving him the look of a Saint Bernard that had broken into its own brandy barrel. "It feels good," murmured Manager Walter ("Smokey") Alston of the Los Angeles Dodgers. "It always feels good...
...what capital city in Europe is a beheaded man the patron saint? It is by such recondite clues that the reader comes to understand that the scene of Susan Sontag's The Benefactor is, in fact, Paris. The publishers confirm this on the book jacket. "Identifiable as Paris" is the tentative concession, as if Farrar, Straus had only reached a majority decision on the issue...