Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white desert of the geographic South Pole, a house of worship was dedicated last week. Its congregation: the 17 men of the Deep Freeze IV outpost in Antarctica. The "Chapel of Our Faith" began when the outpost's recreation building, where religious services had been held, caved in under the weight of snow. Navy Petty Officer C. Norman Engel, 37, of Spring Lake. N.J., requested permission to build a chapel in its place out of spare lumber, and all members of the group worked at the project-painting, decorating, or just shoveling snow...
...Leader of America." At week's end, with an entourage of 35 bearded bodyguards, Castro flew off to Caracas for another spell of the mass worship he adores. Roaring over the city at 500 ft. in a Super Constellation, Castro broadcast his excited impressions over a hookup linking the plane's transmitter to Radio Continente in Caracas: "I am speechless from the panorama. As we fly over the mountains I get the impression that I am in the Sierra Maestra." Venezuelans, who loyally supported the Castro cause during the long fight against the tyrant Batista, yelled their cheers...
...Consumer worship: "The pull of the profitable middle accents the sameness in us all ... out of our riches has come a kind of poverty, the poverty of speed and saturation...
...grave or "Dear Charles" at Dickens'-still less be urged to do so by an academic history? The fact is that though no two "Janeites" can ever agree on what words to use in venerating the author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfield Park, none doubt that worship is indicated. Even rugged Rudyard Kipling imagined her being greeted in paradise by Fielding, Smollett, Cervantes and Shakespeare...
...came formally under Tibetan influence. The British took over Sikkim in 1860, but even today, members of the ruling Maharajah's family traditionally marry Tibetans, and Buddhism is Sikkim's official religion, even though three-fourths of the Sikkimese people are Nepalese by descent and Hindu in worship...