Word: unction
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King of Kings (Samuel Bronston; M-G-M). Christianity, which has survived the Turkish onslaught and the Communist conspiracy, may even survive this picture; but individual Christians who try to sit through it may find themselves longing for extreme unction...
With hypocritical unction, Moscow added, "it was with a heavy heart that the Soviet government has decided to carry out nuclear tests,7'" for it knew that any such experiments "instill alarm in people, make their hearts ache." But "every effort is being taken to minimize" the harmful effects of fallout on living organisms...
...version of Anglicans) believe they have the apostolic succession in their bishops, acquired before the Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church. Chief sacraments are baptism and communion, in which Christ is considered a real presence. In contrast to the other denominations, Episcopalians consider confirmation, penance, ordination, unction and matrimony as sacramental...
...Came to Love Charles." Many of the nation's editorial writers were unmoved. The New York Post's Columnist William V. Shannon summed it up for the dissidents when he called Van Doren's testimony "a tasteless exercise in guile and unction. The basic problem seems to be his iron egotism. Can't we have a manly, straightforward admission of error without all this hokum about his 'responsibilities to my fellow men'? . . . I could not care less whether Charlie Van Doren made $10 or $129,000. But dignity, self-respect, restraint and detachment...
...alarm, "Dio mio, non ci vedo!-My God, I cannot see!" It was a stroke. The Pope fought back. His vision restored, he summoned his substitute Secretary of State, Angelo Dell'Acqua, and sharply demanded: "Why have the audiences been canceled?" He received Holy Communion and Extreme Unction from his German Jesuit secretary, Father Robert Leiber, but he peeked at the thermometer when his temperature was being taken and said "non é grave" when he saw it was only 99°. That night he drank a glass of red wine and called for a recording of Beethoven...