Word: saviorism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athens airfield were kept to assigned positions. Communist leaflets in the city warned: "Out of here, you butcher Eisenhower! Greek children will not be your victims!" But friendly faces far outnumbered the threats. Next day, King Paul gave Eisenhower the Grand Cross of the Order of the Savior, and his deputy, General Gruenther, the Grand Cross of the Order of George...
...country's changing manners and habits. In the early days, Sears' ultimate in sophistication was a solid gold toothpick with earspoon combined, its recommendation for an evening's entertainment a stereoscope with "twelve splendid views portraying in the most vivid manner the story of our Savior's life before & after Crucifixion." Sickly Sears customers were urged to wear a "Heidelberg Electric Belt" for nervous diseases, headaches or backaches. There were "liquor cures" (i.e., knockout drops), and Sears' remedy for the "morphine and opium" habit. Pajamas were first carried for men only and its rouge would...
...reported Professor Highet's remarks in the Nov. 12 issue . . . Mr. Highet regards Caesar as "a crook and a traitor" because he believes in political liberty and dreads the appearance in this country of a man of Caesar's intelligence and ambition. Dante regarded Caesar as the savior of the temporal world and the human counterpart of the divine Christ, because Dante believed in a world state, abhorred the misery caused by international wars, and had himself experienced the brutal anarchy of the Italian democracies...
...this first volume of his memoirs. He tells, in a style as stiff and formal as the old Hoover collar and without much seeming premonition of the momentous events still before him, of his first 45 years. They were the years when he was called The Great Engineer and savior of the hungry-and years of travel, discoveries, successes and adventures. Some future biographer may make a better story of it all, but Autobiographer Hoover has a pretty good memory for significant detail...
...London, a group of prominent clergy and laymen proposed that St. George's Church in Gravesend, where Pocahontas, wife of John Rolfe and savior of Captain John Smith, has been buried since 1617, be dedicated as a shrine to Christian unity. Said the London Times: "One who tried to reconcile her own primitive American people with the invading white men is perhaps no bad patroness for a church dedicated ... to the idea of unity-unity both of the American and British nations and of the Christian churches. It should be a matter of pride to see that the appeal...