Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manila. To Shann's credit, he maintained a detached attitude in the presentation of fact and conclusions, but it is probably not without certain feeling that he and his fellow "small nations" print Premier Nagy's last broadcast words: "I should like in these last moments to ask the leaders of the Revolution, if they can, to leave the country. . . They should turn to all the peoples of the world for help and explain that today it is Hungary and tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, it will be the turn of other countries because the imperialism...
...proud Maronite Catholic clansmen of Zghorta. a mountain village famed for its fighting spirit since the days of the First Crusade, are as pious as they are touchy. When they are feuding-and that is most of the time-they are careful to go to church and ask God's help in aiming their guns, and even when they are on the run, they seldom miss Sunday Mass...
...hard to make it precise. The one kind of equipment on which he has not stinted money is a battery of recording machines. From transcripts of therapy sessions counselors can check their own and one another's performances; aspirants in training can learn the method-and clients often ask to have recordings played back to them, to help them understand changes in themselves...
...Roman Catholic Historian Johannes Jorgensen called "the most powerful attempt since Christ to make the world truly Christian." Their leader was a gentle little man who began life as a gay young gallant with a yen for glory-until, riding off to war at 22, he heard a voice ask, "Why do you desert the Lord?" Not long after, Francis of Assisi turned to prayer and fasting. Haled into an episcopal court for selling some of his merchant father's best fabrics to help a poor priest, he stepped out of his fine clothes before the stunned bishop...
...years to live with a vicar's family and learn proper manners. Then he brought her back and married her. They lived happily together for 47 years, and had 15 children-such a family that once at a Christmas party, when he leaned down to ask a moppet, "And whose little girl are you, my dear?" she burst into tears and sobbed, "I'm yours, Daddy...