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...Holy Year was over, but Roman Catholics everywhere could still earn the plenary indulgence (remission of temporal punishment for sin) earned last year by all who went to Rome. Following a precedent established in 1500, the Pope proclaimed that, during the year 1951, the faithful who had been unable to make the journey to Rome could earn the indulgence by observing designated terms of the jubilee in their own diocese...
...guilty! I am a sinner!" screamed fat-faced Ilse Koch to her jailers. In her frenzy-whether genuine or faked-she smashed the furniture in her cell and babbled about heaven, hell and sin...
...which floodlights roam eerily over huge posters bearing his picture. Piccadilly Circus becomes the desolate crossroads of a ghost city; Waterloo Station is an empty tomb except for confiscated pets and such prohibited excess baggage as trunks, tennis rackets and a sandwich man's sign ("The Wages of Sin Is Death"). On doomsday morning, from the city's rim, four army divisions move in for a house-to-house search...
...Ithaca's Ony Morning Newspaper High Above Cayuga's Pure Waters are in a state of moral frustration. We had hardly considered ourselves the essence of virgin innocence, but we did believe that we recognized the depths of sin when it smacked us in the face...
...Total Warfare. "The cardinal sin of a football official," says Swaffield, "is to be out of position." At the Army-Navy game, his position will be directly behind the offensive team, where he can watch the play develop and follow it downfield, "on top of it" all the way. Each of the other three officials has his standard starting spot: the umpire behind the defensive line, the head linesman sighting along the line of scrimmage for offside violations, the field judge back of the defensive secondary to watch for kicks, forward-pass plays and downfield interference...