Word: worship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly the score feast proved that even the Ivy League, with its strict rules against importing professional players, can show a sparkling brand of football. In spite of traditional lassitude, little football here worship in the stands, and too many three-hour labs for the players, the raw material under these Paris fashion pants can be polished into a highly efficient machine...
...Beds at the Inn. In its little valley, Congonhas seethed more in carnival than worship. Trucks rumbled in to disgorge batches of 40 white-suited pilgrims. Faint after bumping over the rough roads, the country folk pressed into the stalls along the Rua Feliciano Mendes for coffee. Because a big-time operator from Belo Horizonte had rented every room in town and sublet them to prostitutes at $10 a day, the pilgrims slept in the streets, in the churchyard or in trucks...
...book, Of Flight and Life (Scribner; $1.50), Lindbergh proposes a religious solution: "When we worship God and live by His spiritual values, the knowledge and infinite complexity of science are channeled by a wisdom beyond human capability . . . Then science gives us the material strength to protect our spiritual values." But Lindbergh's new religion is almost as nationalist as his old pre-Pearl Harbor politics: "For Americans, the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death . . . Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership...
...years (166-160 B.C.) he led pious Jews in rebellion against the Greeks, who had dedicated the temple in Jerusalem to the worship of Olympian Zeus and sacrificed pigs on the altar. Three centuries later the Jewish hero Bar Kochba led a less successful three-year rebellion against the Romans, briefly set himself up as king in Jerusalem...
Protestants and Catholics seem as far from reunion as ever. Joint worship is still expressly forbidden by the Church of Rome.* Yet there are times and places in mid-20th Century when the instinct for unity is stronger than the ban. In last fortnight's issue of the Roman Catholic Commonweal, Father Hans A. Reinhold cited recent instances. Outstanding was the report of a young priest among war prisoners in the Soviet Urals...