Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given up all the girls who once crossed his path and he didn't miss them. He understood, he said, that Penny would pass through several stages of growth that he has already gone through. I asked him if he could face disappointment and he gave a brave answer: "If I try and fail I haven't lost anything," he says. "And Timmy, I think...
...often wondered why I didn't have the courage to leave Big Karl. Many people asked me the same thing. My only answer was that I had been used to being mistreated since the time I was growing up. I didn't know what self-assurance was and had never dared oppose anyone...
...department's rejection of that proposal and its "compromise" on the issue--offering a series of lectures on comparative history to prepare seniors for the generals--was disheartening. The general exam itself was left untouched by that decision, and the lectures made no real difference in preparing students to answer questions on a subject that virtually no courses in the department covered...
Even humanitarian aid, unconnected with gross political manuevering, is ultimately a false answer. Though some good is done, some lives saved and changed for the better, humanitarian aid has powerful negative effects. Essentially, it places the burden of change on the individual, neglecting the social roots of his condition. The paternalism inherent in aid ("these poor folks are inept and need help") is another negative factor...
...Mescal Mclntosh, then 45, one of his parishioners. Gill began putting questions to God via Mclntosh and invited church members to do the same. Instead of "feeling" the words as Gill did, Mclntosh actually heard the voice of God, who, she said, "would just instantly dictate an answer as though he were on the telephone." About 40 of the faithful had left, charging heresy. Those who remained were spellbound. Many began to receive their own dreams and visions, which Gill interpreted, Daniel-style...