Word: stigmata
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...quote has upset him more over the years than the claim that he shouted "Kill! Kill! Kill!" as he worked in the war room of the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. An absolute falsehood, he maintains, along with the claim that he sometimes gets nosebleeds when he gets angry, like stigmata of his temper. The nosebleeds, he says, just happen sometimes, as they would for anybody else. When McCain calls him "Sergeant Schmidt," the candidate is making a joke on a couple of different levels...
...young Polish priest named Karol Wojtyla made the pilgrimage to a small town in Puglia to have his confession heard by Padre Pio, the mysterious Italian monk with the Christ-like stigmata wounds on his hands. It was that encounter - along with Wojtyla's belief that a prayer by the Capuchin monk had cured a friend's cancer in 1962 - that helps explain why Padre Pio was fast-tracked for sainthood once Wojtyla had risen to the papacy as John Paul II. But some may now wonder if the current Pope, the cerebral and professorial Benedict XVI, has the same...
...intent on horning in on their daughters’ careers (yet also sabotaging them by choosing, while their daughters are in a coked-out haze, films for them such as “I Know Who Killed Me,” a movie in which said daughter experiences twin stigmata), true personal style is hard to come by. Sadly, this is not an original age, and the famous women of today are merely the puppets of more fashionable anorexics, who in turn send out correctly-dressed clones to Us Magazine parties as their life work...
...revolution may not be televised, but everyone at a recent production of Kerouac-quoting, stigmata-bearing, porc-munching Jack L. Deluge ’04’s comedy “Oily White Sky” could see the revolution in his pants as he straddled Margaret O. Sasser ’04 and painted vaguely sexual anti-corporate slogans on her body. Maybe someday his subversive art will be allowed upstairs in his building...
...Prince Charles will never be King B) a brutal cold snap in England C) how Prince Charles got his stigmata D) a woman giving Prince Charles money for breast-cancer research...