Word: canossa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America should broadcast it-not one time, but again and again, in all languages, so that people all over the world know what the Bulganins and the Khrushchevs and the Molotovs and all the other Kremlinitwits and Moscowards had to say about "Dear Comrade" Tito before they went to Canossa...
...poems, "Sackcloth and Ashes" and "Canossa in April" reveal the individual authors' exultation at various aspects of spring; one praises the dormant appeal of the Radcliffe girl, the other ridicules the idea of wearing clothes in the warm April days. Both are amusing despite some incredible meter...
...Jewish reaction to Adenauer was skeptically approving. Remembering the 6,000,000 Jews exterminated by Hitler, the Jerusalem Post commented: "There is no Canossa where Germans can perform penance except that reared by their own conscience." But it also applauded Adenauer's "moral impulse and courage...
...first centuries had no opportunity for anything but separation from the state. But with the coming of the Middle Ages the church adopted what Author Stokes calls the "Ecclesiastical Domination plan," which reached its height with Emperor Henry IV's famed barefoot repentance before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa...
...charging the Germans with the responsibility for Hitler's crimes . . . No one demands a beating of the breasts or a scene at Canossa.* But what I do expect is an end to the arguments of those Germans who would not only deny their own guilt, but also seek to place the responsibility for the consequences of that guilt exclusively upon the shortcomings of other peoples ... I want you to know that such utterances . . . call to mind what people are now disposed to forget, that is, the amazing docility and acquiescence of the greater part of the German population toward...