Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their sermons-written and ready for delivery-direct from the Religious Affairs Ministry in Cairo. Imams who spoke their own minds would be fired by the ministry (which supports almost all of Egypt's mosques). Said Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser: "The revolution will not permit vindictiveness to triumph under the guise of religion." But not even Hitler or Stalin had ever attempted to dictate every word a preacher said...
...Asia . . . The means employed by them thus far ... are murder, imprisonment, theft (whole countries) and lying propaganda. How do you negotiate with such people? By appeasement, of course, the only way acceptable to them ... It were better that the whole world should be destroyed rather than that Communism should triumph...
Compared to Prophet Jones himself, his custom-built beige Cadillac seemed drab and commonplace. Detroit's James F. Jones. Dominion Ruler of the Church of the Universal Triumph, the Dominion of God. Inc., was wearing a $235 light brown suit, yellow checked vest, yellow shoes, red socks and red tie. Even more arresting were his gold-handled cane, the topaz earring on his left ear. the diamond, ruby and topaz rings on his left hand, the diamond and topaz bracelets and heavy gold chain on his left wrist. Prophet Jones always wears his jewelry on the left. He explains...
...saving of the child became almost unbearably moving as doctors and nurses tried one expedient after another to get it breathing; with each failure, tempers became realistically short, and men seemed helpless before the mystery of birth. The musical background, supplied by Victor Young, was a triumph of unobtrusive mood setting. Medic has the endorsement of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, and most of the film was shot in the rooms and corridors of the County Hospital. The only noticeable divergence from truth came at the show's end, when a nurse asked the doctor: "Shall I tell...
...heart ailment; in Rome. Son of a Papal Swiss Guard, Cardinal Schuster entered a Benedictine monastery at eleven, in 1929 became (at 49) the youngest prelate in the College of Cardinals. An outspoken, early supporter of Mussolini's Fascism (he hailed the invasion of Ethiopia as a "triumph of the cross of Christ"), he was pro-Ally in World War II, in 1945 acted as intermediary in unsuccessful surrender negotiations between Mussolini and the partisans. After the war, he became a leading figure in Italy's battle against Communism and anticlericalism...