Word: vestment
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...stormed the rostrum to denounce the General Assembly as "a theater of the absurd" and to dismiss reports on American imperialism as "rubbish." When something clear and pleasing emerges from U.N. newspeak, he quotes James Joyce to describe the rare phenomenon: "Its whatness leaps to us from the vestment of its appearance ... the object achieves its epiphany...
...knock at the door, and a campesino walked in, hat in hand and shoulders bent over in what looked almost like a caricature of humility. "Padre, por favor, pudiera venir al cementerio, para rezar por nuestro companero?" So the priest, his face impassive, put on his black vestment, and we were off to the cemetery to say some prayers over the body of a campesino awaiting burial...
...until the body's buried?" I asked him almost gleefully. I had never seen a burial. No, he answered, it was time for dinner. By now there was a noticeable buzz in my head. We set back for the church, so that the padre could get rid of his vestment...
...Miller, was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Browns. "I've always wanted to be an owner like my father," he says. Tippit was a boyhood baseball freak who wanted to keep Cleveland a major-league city. With the authority of a $250,000 in vestment, he helps run the town's base ball team, the Indians...
Showing the 120 people gathered at the Ames Courtroom an "Impeach Nixon" button pinned to his priest's vestment, Drinan said, "The authority of the president is eroding every single day. Events are becoming more and more unbelievable. One of my constituents wrote me that she believes Bebe Rebozo is running the country...