Word: sulphureous
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Ceylon, which is not a U.N. member (it was vetoed by Russia), is the only commonwealth nation that has shipped any rubber to Red China in 1952. The U.S. State Department has retaliated by cutting off sulphur exports to Ceylon, and by canceling $500,000 in Point Four...
...years the swarthy men of Cabernardi, their fathers and their grandfathers before them have dug sulphur out of the vine-covered hills around their village. The black-streaked yellow ore has brought them steady jobs, tidy red brick houses and a measure of happiness, but in recent years it has brought a creeping fear: What if the supply of sulphur should run out? As the mine shaft plunged deeper and deeper into the earth, even Cabernardi's Communists went regularly to the little parish church to pray to St. Barbara that the seam might last forever...
...Cabernardi. They bedded down in mule stalls, took walks along dark tunnels lit only by their battery-fed cap lamps, and relaxed with Communist papers sent down from the shaft head. On the surface, their families camped forlornly near -barbed-wire enclosures redolent with the rotten-egg smell of sulphur furnaces. A constant stream of baskets containing fish, cheese, soup and meat passed through the gate to be sent below. With the baskets went an occasional note. "If you don't come up, I'll go away forever," wrote one wife. Her husband scrambled out of the emergency...
Next day the entire village went to the church to pray that St. Barbara might find them some more sulphur...
...souls of men . . . The conflict of the future is between the absolute who is the God-man and the absolute which is the man-God . . . The anti-Christ will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers. He will wear no red tights, nor vomit sulphur ... He will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty ... He will foster science, but only to have armament makers use one marvel of science to destroy another . . . He will even speak of Christ and say that he was the greatest man who ever lived...