Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Zinder spent Christmas Day in Bethlehem in Judea, watching the thousands of pilgrims (so many of them American boys and girls in uniform this year) who flock to worship above the manger where Christ was laid when there was no room for Mary and Joseph...
...monsters promptly clapped the petulant Patriarch into jail. But none of this persecution made much change in the ingrained Christian faith of Russia's mystically minded millions of believers. Believers who harbored priests or attended worship might be deprived of their ration tickets, their jobs or might just disappear into jails or subArctic exile. They might not come together at all unless 20 believers risked registering with the local Soviet and received permission to worship. Still they came together for worship...
...also the tribute of a dying age to one of the most distinguished of its dead. Wrote Sir Max: "We are told . . . that the present century is to be the Century of the Common Man. We are all of us to go down on our knees . . . and worship the Common Man. . . . Well, I am an old man, and old men are not ready converts to new religions. This one does not stir my soul.... I like to think that on the morning of January the first, in the year 2000, mankind will be free to . . . rise from its knees...
Pageantry, Paganism, Piety. The Apostle is packed with realistic resuscitations of First-Century life in the Roman Empire, elaborately drawn portraits of famed pagans (Emperor Caligula, Empress Poppaea, Philosopher-Statesman Seneca), vivid descriptions of the burning of Rome, Nero's persecutions, the mystery cults and the worship of Diana...
...urging of Cordell Hull, the Moscow Conference agreed, in language reminiscent of the U.S. Bill of Rights, that: "Freedom of speech, of religious worship, of political belief, of press and of public meeting shall be restored in full measure to the Italian people. . .."* Even a hard-headed realist like Kent Cooper had reason to hope that Allied statesmen would feel the same way about Germany and other Axis powers, that Russia would fall into line of her own motion...