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...Nativity scene with a verse he had written for the occasion). As he walked toward a waiting car with General James Van Fleet, some 50 soldiers who had been waiting clustered around him. One called out, "Give us a blessing, Father." While the cardinal murmured the short blessing, they knelt quietly on the runway...
...Paris' unheated Palais des Sports last week, the barefooted contestants, dressed in pajama like costumes, clambered carefully into the canvas-covered ring. At a signal from the referee, the contestants knelt on their haunches, Japanese style, heads bowed low. Then they hopped to their feet and came out fighting. Much of the fighting was a soundless, antic pantomime with the contestants warily circling each other, clutching pajama tops, watching the opponent's feet like two children taking their first steps on the dance floor...
...Puritan sense, and intended to awe students by using religious menaces or ordinary flogging. The latter was quite popular. In 1674, for example, a student guilty of speaking blasphemous words was brought before his classmates, the officers, and Overseers of the College, where his sentence was read. He knelt down, the President prayed, he was flogged (law permitted no more than ten swipes), and the President ended the ceremony with another prayer...
...boarding party, more than 30 strong, clambered to the Takshing's deck, her 300 Chinese passengers were seized by panic. One old woman knelt and chanted prayers to the Goddess of Mercy...
Composer Valentino Bucchi's measured music was a careful reflection of medieval modes. Massine, reported Rome's // Messaggero, has "knelt to the spirituality of his subject." The local clergy was, on the whole, fascinated. The next day Monsignor Luigi Piastrelli commended the perform ance from his pulpit...