Word: canossa
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...Emperor usually ending up on top. Monarchs customarily appointed bishops in the Middle Ages; when Pope Gregory VII told Emperor Henry IV to stop doing it and was refused, he excommunicated Henry, and had the warming pleasure of keeping the penitent Emperor waiting barefoot in the snow at Canossa for three days before letting him in for forgiveness. But Gregory's fun was soon over. Henry exiled him in 1084, and the back-and-forth went...
...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...