Word: amenability
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...fact, would have been an excellent opportunity, because in it he touches on--but ultimately skirts--the issues of the American Irish feelings for their embattled brethren overseas. Jimmy Breslin, also a member in good-standing of the tough-guy school, made such an attempt in World Without End, Amen. Higgins implies that these Irishmen are not running guns just to make money, but he resists any exploration of that rich vein of sentiment and history...
...walking, medieval scribes laid curses on their manuscripts. A typical example reads: "If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen...
...missionary (amen...
...edge of the minister's solemn dark surplice as he sweeps up into the pulpit and the choir and organ thunder the last amen can be seen the orange and black seal of the university, and below it Princeton's motto...
...fervent amen to Frank Trippett's Essay, "Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah" [Dec. 22]. Being an avid baseball fan, I find it excruciating to have to listen to the patter of a sports announcer who seems to choose the most awkward time of the game to give out with a rush of statistics that go back 20 years...