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Word: withe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.S. informality gives priests plenty of leeway in where they go and what they do, though they are not often seen in nightclubs. But in modern Italy a priest watching a soccer match-much less a floor show or a movie-is out of bounds. Priests must always wear their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Priest on Via Veneto | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

With these restrictions in mind, a horde of tipped-off tabloid photographers descended on Club 84 and Father Gussoni, who panicked and fled. Trailed by the flashbulb boys to another nightspot, Gussoni and his friends sent out a waiter "disguised" as the priest to lead them off the scent, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Priest on Via Veneto | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

One of the strongest Christian influences in Africa is a 50-year-old Zulu with a pencil-line mustache and horn-rimmed spectacles who has a knack of persuading criminals to turn in their weapons-and often themselves. Wearing a dark business suit, the Rev. Nicholas Bhengu stands on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Black Billy Graham | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Last week Bhengu was busy in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Whites jam-packed Salisbury's Methodist Hall to hear him tell them, in precise English, what was wrong with white Christianity: "The greatest dangers in Africa today are Communism and Islam. Both offer the African equality. The churches are divided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Black Billy Graham | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

The most gifted female athlete in the history of Pennsylvania's Radnor High School was a tall (5 ft. 7½ in.) brunette with a booming tennis serve and a fine basketball hook shot. After she left Radnor, the brunette became one of the best lyric-coloratura sopranos in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Radnor High | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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