Word: worshiped
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...million. For nearly 40 years the two faiths were embroiled in bloody conflict, symbolized by the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of August 1572, during which perhaps as many as 10,000 Huguenots were murdered. The Edict of Nantes (1598) gave France's Protestants freedom of worship and academic and political rights, but by 1661 the Roman Catholic Church and the crown had made headway in whittling down Protestant liberty, and in 1685 the Edict was revoked. Within a few weeks 2,000 churches were razed to the ground, and thousands of Huguenots (French Reformed and Calvinist...
...weight lifting. Russia's genial Alexander Kurynov. 26, had always venerated Hawaii's two-time Olympic Champion Tommy Kono, 30. as one of the world's great athletes. Matched against Kono in the middleweight division, the Russian research scientist quickly forgot his hero worship, scored one of the Olympics' notable upsets by breaking Kono's world record, surpassing him by 22 Ibs., with a total of 964½ Ibs. in three lifts, and taking the gold medal...
Status Eking. Author Ham laces the willful charm of his love story with a carbonated commentary on suburbanitis, with its worship of errant gadgets (" 'Patent applied for' but never to be granted, I trust"), anxious affluence ("We had enough trouble living 10% over our income"), status eking ("If the price was down around $17,000-in Darien that meant one room and an outhouse on a twenty-by-twenty lot under the New Haven Railroad tracks") and nostalgic concupiscence ("There hasn't been an organized wife-swapping party in Darien or New Canaan for five years...
...along with the U.S. in a specific denunciation of Russian and Communist Chinese intervention and of Cuba for inviting it. Other foreign ministers-from Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Honduras and Ecuador-were moved by their own leftism, by fear of disappointing masses back home who hero-worship Castro or by fear of seeming subservient to the U.S. They favored a resolution mildly deploring outside intervention...
Eucharistic Congresses, the spectaculars of Roman Catholicism, have been held since 1881 in every corner of the earth (the last in Rio in 1955) to worship what German Theologian Theoderich Kampmann called "the still white majesty of the mystic bread" and thus to demonstrate Catholic internationalism and solidarity. Last week nearly half a million Catholics from all over the world met in Munich to celebrate the 37th World Eucharistic Congress. Among them: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who arrived by helicopter, plus 21 cardinals, 500 bishops and thousands of priests...