Word: virginal
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...generation's transcendence is the next generation's trivia question. A case in point is Miraculous Medals of the Virgin Mary. Forty years ago, the demure images of the Virgin atop the globe, distributed at First Communions and spelling bees and treasured thereafter, could be found around the necks of a veritable legion of Roman Catholics. Today they have fallen so far from favor that their mention draws blank looks from some Catholic Gen-Xers. Why? Inhibitions unintentionally fostered by the Second Vatican Council may have had something to do with it. And certain women, writes author Sally Cunneen, were...
aajay: (U.S. Virgin Islands) wild with anger...
...child and pet--and waded, triumphantly, in the knee-deep blood. Nor have civilian women ever been entirely safe from their own "protectors." The subjects of Gilgamesh, the first warrior hero of recorded history, complained that "his arrogance has no bounds by day or night...His lust leaves no virgin to her lover...
...friend's car died, so he placed a picture of it at the alter and asked the Virgin Mary to guard it in the celestial garage," Agredano said...
...close Yankee observer, Sister Marguerite, says, "He cares about winning, but he also cares about people." Sister Marguerite is the longtime principal of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary School in the Ozone Park section of Queens, and last Thursday was a special day at the school--the kids could wear casual, i.e., Yankee, clothes instead of their usual uniforms. There was a local TV-news crew milling about, and Sister Marguerite called out, "Who wants to be a celebrity? Channel 9 is outside...