Word: supper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body and blood under the form of bread and wine. The ritual evolved over many centuries. The "Mass" of the early Christians was a simple commemorative meal, at which worshipers ate bread and drank wine over which a priest had repeated Jesus' words at the Last Supper. Each local church developed its own customs and ceremonies to surround these acts, but in the Middle Ages the rite performed in Rome became the model for the entire Western church. Gradually the Mass became a mysterious rite, celebrated in a language not understood by the congregation. Prayers once recited...
...Helsinki, stand firmly on their Confessions, yet often go through the motions in the most outlandish manner, simply to demonstrate that form means nothing. Pray God that ere too long, the two of us will sit at the same table together-first to talk, ultimately to share the Supper of the Lord...
...Supper?" and hurried into...
...Thus the jurors had also decided that, by definition, leggy, red-maned Christine Keeler, 21, and blonde, baby-faced Mandy Rice-Davies, 18, were prostitutes.* If either was dismayed at being formally branded a whore, neither showed it. At the London premiere of Cleopatra and an otherwise exclusive buffet supper afterward, Mandy in a brief blue gown that was designed by herself (and looked it) stole the limelight...
...latest include a monorail roller coaster imported from Germany, a Space Whirl featuring bumper cars which can also whirl like dervishes at 100 r.p.m. But the park's most puzzling addition to its fun is no ride; it's a waxworks replica of the Last Supper...