Word: voodoos
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...onetime student of voodoo, Zarur grew up memorizing the Bible and studying mysticism. In 1932 he drifted into radio as a writer and actor. In 1948, as the story goes, a medium brought him a message from St. Francis of Assisi: "The time for the mission has arrived." "What mission?" asked Zarur. "Read the book about him," said the medium, "and you will understand." Zarur went back to a book by St. Francis, and suddenly "I knew everything. All I had to do was begin...
Massachusetts seems to be trying everything to win today. They have made fierce statements, posed for fierce pictures, beaten Maine 14-7, slaughtered Colgate in a scrimmage, made fierce statements, exhorted alumni to root and pray, pushed pins into voodoo dolls, practiced inordinately hard, and made fierce statements...
...raging Duvalier sent back word: "Barbot, you will bring me your head." But in voodoo-entranced Haiti the whisper went around that no one could kill Barbot. He had the strange power, they said, to change himself into a black dog and escape at will. In Port-au-Prince, Duvalier's policemen went around shooting black dogs on sight...
...international word, a basic consideration to old Diplomat Pearson. "Nuclear virginity" is a favorite Canadian political stance, and Pearson was no more warmly disposed toward nuclear weapons than Diefenbaker was. But Diefenbaker agreed to play Canada's part in continental defense by acquiring Bomarc antiaircraft missiles and Voodoo interceptors, only to refuse the nuclear warheads for which they were designed. The Honest John artillery missiles with the Canadian Army Brigade on NATO duty in Germany were, to keep them balanced, filled with sand...
...decision of the Liberal leader, Lester Pearson, to arm Canadian Voodoo interceptors and Bomarcs with American made nuclear weapons is singularly resented in Quebec. Every Quebec newspaper save one has vehemently editorialized against him for this apparent "capitulation" to the Americans. In addition, in contradiction to Mr. Cohen's assertion, Premier Lesage of Quebec has not been "rallying provincial support" behind Mr. Pearson. Mr. Lesage has retained the classic stance of Quebec Premiers--that of studious aloofness, if not indifference, to the federal election campaign. There is not evidence that Mr. Lesage has put his political machine at Mr. Pearson...