Word: vials
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vietnamese. But for the G.I.s in the rear areas, there was another enemy to fight: hard drugs. To find out why, I invited a "closet" addict from Army headquarters in Saigon to come over and talk. Blond, gangling and obviously underweight, my guest slouched into a chair, pulled a vial of heroin from his baggy fatigues, tapped some of the white powder into a cigarette paper and lit up. At college in Ohio he had majored in engineering, been on the debating team, the basketball team, and had been active in peace groups. Now he was "fighting...
...priest to administer the Roman Catholic sacrament of extreme unction has long had an ominous meaning: the patient was virtually given up for dead. Those whose condition was not in fact so grave could be given a nasty turn by the sight of the priest with his vial of holy oil. Now Pope Paul VI has changed all that. The sacrament, called "the anointing of the sick" since Vatican II, will hereafter be used not only for those who are in imminent danger of death, but also for those who are seriously but not mortally...
...American Airlines flight and activated a magnetometer. Since Meulener also fitted the secret federal "skyjacker profile," which purports to list the characteristics of potential skyjackers, he was thoroughly searched. Authorities found 76 grams of heroin and more than half a kilo of marijuana in his suitcase, plus a vial of hashish oil in his pants pocket. He was promptly arrested. Judge Ferguson ruled, however, that the search had been unconstitutional for two reasons. It had not begun with a simple pat-down for weapons, which he considered permissible under previous Supreme Court rulings. And Meulener had not been explicitly warned...
...came to town last week in Flushing, N.Y.-not a department-store imitation but the original St. Nicholas, who was a 4th century bishop in the Asia Minor city of Myra. Or at least a part of him came. Relics of the saint-fragments of his skull and a vial of oily substance said to have oozed from his skull-were formally enshrined in St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Flushing. A gift from the Roman Catholic Church to the Greek Orthodox, the relics were sent to New York from the cathedral in Bari, Italy, where other relics...
Cardinal Ursi triumphantly elevated the reliquary encasing the vial. An attendant, seeing the frothy liquid, happily waved his handkerchief at the congregation (it is considered a good omen if the blood bubbles or froths). A beaming priest applauded. The cathedral bells were rung. The congregation, with restrained excitement, continued to pray in thanksgiving...