Word: amenability
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...Tipitapa, a town outside Managua where he has been imprisoned. "It was done for the dollar mainly." Would he do it again? "If somebody asked me to, I'd ask him if he had all his marbles." Does he feel he is paying for the "sins" of the U.S. ? "Amen. Amen." Surprisingly, many of the Nicaraguans who lingered outside the courtroom seemed sympathetic toward the hapless American. Said one ; schoolteacher, who waited to catch a glimpse of Hasenfus and his wife Sally: "This is not their place. They should go home." The message, if not the tone, was one that...
...Western Europe. If there is a threat of war in Europe, in Brandt's opinion, it stems from the presence of U.S. nuclear weapons in West Germany. As Brandt noted in his keynote speech last week, "the interests of our people are not served by people who say 'amen' when Washington prays...
...Beach's Fashion Island mall, is a marble-floored enclave of jewelry and apparel shops, with an entire ground level given over to gourmet markets and eateries -- caviar and quail to go. Matrons browse among $11,000 silk dresses and $5,000 crocodile handbags in the boutiques of Clothier Amen Wardy, an ex-Texan who is happy to send clients a "clothesmobile" staffed with a fitter. South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa is equally posh. Yachts and other pleasure craft are so numerous that dock space in Newport Beach's harbor rents for as much as $300 a month...
...Joliet, Jenco's relatives greeted his call from Damascus with tears of joy. Earlier, the family had posted a sign outside that read FATHER MARTIN JENCO, AMERICAN HELD HOSTAGE IN LEBANON. Last Saturday the sign was changed to read RELEASED AFTER 564 DAYS. AMEN...
...German poet Novalis was more poetic: "Love is the final purpose of world history--the amen of the universe...