Word: unctions
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...dusk beneath a skeleton of steel girders that shores it up, a byproduct of the 1927 earthquake. A group of Greek Orthodox priests in conical hats chat quietly in the courtyard, and inside a Russian nun kneels beneath the dim flicker of three lanterns to kiss the Stone of Unction, where Christ's body is supposed to have been anointed for burial (several such Stones of Unction are said to have been kissed away by pilgrims...
Stretched out on his plain brass bed, retching in pain, the Pope seemed first to be suffering an appendicitis attack; then, as evidence of intestinal hemorrhage appeared, the doctors feared a perforated ulcer. X rays were ordered. The sacrament of Extreme Unction was administered. Gradually the pain began to subside...
...will think upon Rahab and Babylon' ... or such gibberish as the verse of the 68th Psalm beginning, 'Rebuke the company of the spearmen'? I am told that the correct translation of these words is 'Rebuke the hippopotamus.'* Our churchgoers would sing this with equal unction if they had it before them, as fashionable ladies cheerfully sing the Magnificat, which is more violent than The Red Flag...
...international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...
...TIME, July 24, 1939), allows three minutes, 15 seconds out of every daytime quarter hour; two minutes, 30 seconds out of every nighttime quarter hour. The extra 45 seconds in daytime may account for much of soap opera's sales pull; also for much suffocating boredom. The merciless unction of long, repetitive commercials struck both U.S. listeners and U.S. advertisers as downright incongruous in the days just after Pearl Harbor. The advertisers' reaction apparently wore off, but a certain public feeling remained, especially about commercials that try to capitalize on the war effort...