Word: founding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordained a priest under the name Padre Pio-Father Pius. He developed tuberculosis, but continued his priestly duties, though he sometimes fell into ecstatic trances while saying Mass. During one trance, in 1918, Padre Pio collapsed and had to be carried unconscious from the church. Those who examined him found bleeding wounds in his hands and feet and a wound in his side "such as produced by a sharp weapon." Padre Pio had the stigmata-the marks of Christ...
...conferees found nothing to feel smug about. "The imprint of Christian culture in Asia is lighter than the West assumes," said Visser 't Hooft. Said Dr. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary,' who has spent the past two months in the Far East: "There's a tremendous void in the heart of East Asia. The ancient religions are unable to explain the revolutionary changes that are taking place, or have no adequate ideas or attitudes with which to meet them...
...analysis made with Dr. S. H. Clayton, also of Dallas, Dr. Moyer found that 40,000 to 50,000 Americans get cancer of the stomach every year. Only one-tenth of the victims are operated on, and he believes that half the surgery patients die from the operation...
...float into Soldier Field between the halves of a professional football game. A group of jeering teenagers began to pelt him with snowballs, hit him squarely in the face. As Santa exited, angrily shaking his fist, he moaned: "There's a dead spot in my popularity-I just found...
...Chicago department store, Santa found that many moppets were fascinated by the ticking of his watch, decided to do even better. He buried an alarm clock in his stuffed paunch. All went well until the alarm went off, sent terrified children scampering across the floor...