Word: worshipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room, not the chapel. The frantic witch burnings of the 16th century, furthermore, in which Protestants and Catholics participated with equal zest, are explained in Satan largely as the products of their times. This heyday of witch burnings, black Masses (i.e., profane renderings of the Catholic Mass) and Devil worship, writes Belgian Scholar Emile Brouette, represented "the dawn of the false empire of Satan in a Europe gripped by religious and moral crisis and a prey to social unrest and political insecurity...
Patterson, who is awaiting trial on charges of contempt of Congress, went on, "American morals are worse than those of Nazi Germany before the War," and he forecast more race riots and lynchings in 1952. "Most of our churches are Jim Crow churches, so they must worship a Jim Crow God," he noted...
...football captain drafted willy-nilly as president of the student council and editor of the school paper. John Ford still treats him as a clumsy sophomore and bawls him out unmercifully when they work together. Wayne takes it like a scolded schoolboy and murmurs, "Sorry, Coach," with abject hero-worship. But in other quarters Duke himself is the worshiped hero. Sometimes he finds the situation confusing...
...with permanent homes around Los Angeles. This gives the Band of Renown a respectable pipe & slippers atmosphere, in contrast to the breathless, upper-berth days of the middle '30s, when Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Jimmie Lunceford rocketed around the U.S. with their big bands, collecting frenzied worship. In 15 years the band business has settled down, and chunky Les Brown, who played his first dance date with a clarinet at 16, is one who saw the change coming...
...prohibition of "Black Mass," the rite of devil-worship at the University of Chicago has caused the student government to consider a resolution criticizing the University for "unjustified suppression of religious freedom...