Word: amenability
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...began with a prayer: "Almighty God . . . give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong . . . so that all may work for the good of our beloved country and for thy glory. Amen." He paused, then turned to the great and terrible issues of the time...
...this the big U.S. oil companies, which own the lion's share of Venezuelan concessions, had said a fervent amen. They had warned the U.S. that unless the tariff was removed or sharply cut, Venezuela might drive the U.S. companies out. Ironically, the President found himself agreeing with the same companies his Administration had just indicted (TIME, Sept. 1) as a wicked oil cartel...
...Most saintly of Virgins, I don't ask to be good today. This is not like the other days. I only ask that they come out easy, that they don't snag me, that I may live and be able to worship you. Just let me live. Amen...
Please place me in the Amen corner for Mortimer Adler. And for TIME'S superlative description of the Great Books project. Philosophy, indeed, is everybody's business . . . Let us educate the freed citizen for a free life, and give him the knowledge to live it intelligently...
...embassy for help. Through police response was sluggish, the embassy's was not. Ambassador Capus M. Waynick, a Presbyterian from North Carolina, dashed right over in person, stalked past the mob, told Riddell to go on with his service, and stayed himself till the last Amen...