Word: solemnizations
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...lesser scale, economic sanctions have usually backfired. Moscow's attempt to elbow Marshal Tito into line in 1948 only forced the Yugoslavian Communist leader to turn to the West for trade-and drove him further from the Stalinist camp. The Organization of African Unity's solemn pledge to boycott all South African goods has been a joke: Zambia gets at least half its consumer products from Johannesburg, and the government-owned airline of leftist Mali serves South African oranges to its passengers...
...turns solemn. He ends...
...Sistine Chapel-where Popes are elected and many solemn church decisions announced-Paul VI last week summoned delegates of the Jesuit General Congregation that for two months has been debating the reform of the order traditionally regarded as Roman Catholicism's highly disciplined and educated shock troops. To outsiders, the renewal effort has seemed dryly procedural and strikingly inconclusive; Paul's surprising purpose was to denounce sternly the "strange and sinister suggestions" that he detected in the discussions...
...ready for the biggest single rush of the year. Christmas accounts for half of all greeting-card sales (followed by Valentine's Day, Easter and Mother's Day); well-wishers this year will purchase 7 billion cards altogether. Most buyers like their art and inspiration messages solemn and simple...
...over the centuries, deciding what rules were relevant. Canon law was not completely codified until 1917; it contains 2,414 articles in Latin, dealing with everything from the penalties for abortion (excommunication, revocable only by a bishop) to a description of the different kinds of vows (public or private, solemn or simple) taken by religious...