Word: mission
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along the dusty trails of their Texaslike land, bringing their own chairs for the kgotla (parliament) at Serowe. They listened intently to Seretse's most formidable accuser, his uncle and the tribe's Regent Tshekedi. For 23 years, during his nephew's minority and absence abroad, mission-educated Tshekedi had been the black boss of Bechuanaland and one of Africa's outstanding native rulers...
...first time since 1937, the combined Oxford-Cambridge track team was on a mission to the U.S. The purpose: to flex muscles, see the sights, win a few races. Explained one Oxford high-hurdler: "We try to be as casual as possible. With us, track is for relaxation and recreation." Britain's easygoing invaders carried informality so far that their only "coach" was a slender, 20-year-old Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, who was also the squad's captain and star miler...
Raft, whose natural deadpan registers not the slightest difference between one script and the next, takes these exotic frills in his usual dapper stride. He seems happy puttering about among his orchids and potted petunias until the government sends him off on a mission. His job: to ferret out the where and how of a counterfeit operation so gigantic that it threatens the national economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine...
...This school was founded in 1936 by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., which has been operating in Persia (now Iran) since 1870, when it took over the work that the American Congregationalist Church's mission had begun there in 1834. It has U.S. textbooks, curriculum and, mostly, American teachers. The student body is made up of 51 Americans and 245 nationals from 27 other countries. They are the children of businessmen, diplomats, and refugees who have found a home in Iran. In order to enroll they have to pay tuition and have an adequate...
...right arm of St. Francis Xavier, flown from Rome by the Jesuit Order for the occasion, was severed at the elbow in 1614 and brought to Rome as a relic. The saint's body rests on the tiny Portuguese-Indian island of Goa, which had been his mission headquarters. It is exposed for public veneration once every ten years...