Word: worshipped
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...this was part of the Pharaoh's larger plan to destroy the nation's Pantheon of man-beast gods and substitute the world's first monotheistic faith: sun worship. A famed bas-relief shows Akhenaten, Nefertete and a daughter sacrificing to the sun god (see cut). Unfortunately, soon after Akhenaten's death around 1350 B.C., the priest-ridden, sybaritic Tutankhamen (the famed "King Tut" of the 1920s) rang down the curtain on his predecessor's splendid experiment...
Opium of the Masses. Jawaharlal Nehru, however, is far more than just a political boss. In the Indian mystique he is a national symbol, almost the embodiment of India, and he receives from his countrymen probably more unbounded and unabashed hero worship than any other national leader in the world...
...come a long way," said the Very Rev. Dr. Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, in his tercentenary address. Some samples of the progress: today there are approximately 450,000 Jews in the British Isles (about .88% of the total population) who worship in 450 established synagogues; 13 Jewish peers sit in the House of Lords and 19 Jews in the House of Commons; two hold high government jobs-the Marquess of Reading is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Baron Mancroft is Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs...
...George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, will then offer prayer. Earlier in the morning, at 9 a.m., Buttrick will lead a special worship service in Memorial Church for Seniors...
...church's 400 members were hardly aware of it. "It is quite conceivable," said the Rev. Paul T. Seastrand in a report to the congregation two years ago, "that some of our Negro friends may politely ask if they may come into our church on Sunday morning to worship. Certainly Christian love has no answer but to kindly grant the request." There were a few frowns and compressed lips, but the congregation showed no rancor. In Houston, no Negro had ever asked to join Augustana Church, even though it is perched on the edge of an expanding Negro district...