Word: santo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia's press hailed his expedition with gleeful gibes. Item: a caricature of Rubirosa whiling away his safari time by pinching a beautiful nude Indian maiden. Asked for his slant on honest labor, the Ding Dong Daddy from Santo Domingo yawned languidly: "It's impossible for me to work. I just don't have time...
...stomach condition had followed the vision, 2) that a dossier of possible miraculous occurrences was being assembled with a view toward the Pope's eventual canonization. Nevertheless, when the Pope left his summer home at Castel Gandolfo to return to Rome, crowds cried: "Viva il Papa santo." ¶ The church must put sex "in its proper and God-given place," said the Church of England's Moral Welfare Council. "It is the church's care that sex should be rightly used and guided . . . Much of the sexual irregularity of today may ... be caused neither by wickedness...
...breeds springs from native stock. The prehistoric horse, struck by disasters still unknown, was extinct in North America 300 centuries before Co lumbus. It was the great navigator him self who brought the first 25 horses, probably of Arabian ancestry, to the New World, landing at Santo Domingo on his second voyage in 1493. The Indians, terrified by the strange beasts, were easily routed. Later, the western Indians caught on, stole horses from Spanish conquerors, rode and bred them for war and hunting...
Once reopened, the damaged churches became a focus for piety and anger. Inside Santo Domingo, a priest said Mass at an altar improvised of boxes and boards placed in front of a cross made of two charred timbers wired together and planted in a heap of rubble. At San Ignacio, a brown-robed friar carefully set back on its feet an image of San Benito de Palermo, whose day it was. "Not even in Russia did they do this," he said. "They hanged priests, but they did not destroy the churches." In San Miguel lay partly burned church records...
...After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a "sea gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified he saw her pistol-whip a crippled widow to death. Barbara, Santo and Perkins were convicted, and Barbara became the third woman...