Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"Well," concludes Yoshikawa, "I am older now, and dwelling more in the past as the years go by. Some things certainly are ordained. And so it was that I, who was reared as a naval officer, never came to serve in action, but look back on my single top-secret...
A black limousine flying the Union Jack swept past the colonnaded grandeur of the Piazza. San Pietro and into a Vatican courtyard. Out stepped the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England. Escorted by the black-clad Chamberlain of Cape and Sword, the...
By the wish of both, the occasion was attended by a minimum of ceremony, and an absence of cameras. But the meeting marked the end of 400 years of church history. Four centuries ago that great, roaring barrel of a man, King Henry VIII of England, decided to end his...
To the Scaffold. The schism brought wars, rebellion, and shaped the history of Britain. Henry VIII beheaded the two most eminent men of his realm: Sir Thomas More and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. In the Roman Catholic revival under Henry's daughter, the Queen the English called "Bloody...
Both prelates-like today's political leaders of the West-were worried lest they raise false hopes that all differences can be settled by a meeting at the summit. Vatican observers said hopefully that "a first and significant step has been taken," and Pope John saw the meeting going...