Word: atta
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...tongues as a gift of the Holy Spirit, along with prophecy and healing. They hoot at skeptics. "It's pretty hard for a man with an idea to go up against one with an experience," says one self-satisfied glossolalist. Sample tonguing: "Ulla, ulla, unga, unga garah, atta alia ungaraze...
...Phil!" She went to Ceylon even though nationalist agitators collected 150,000 signatures asking her to stay away. In Nigeria, without blinking, she watched the fiery charge of thousands of spear-waving warriors and accepted the homage of such local chieftains as the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv and the Och of Idoma...
...from it one of three slips, each bearing the name of a candidate for the office of "Most Holy Father and Patriarch of the great city of Alexandria and of all Egypt . . . and of all the places where St. Mark preached." The choice: Mina al Baramoussi, born Azer Yousef Atta, sometime clerk at Thomas Cook's travel bureau and a renowned priest known to his followers as "The Solitary...
...gave the Philharmonic an excitement that it has not known in years (he will give the talks only at the Thursday-night "previews"). Broadway Librettist Adolph Green put it most succinctly when he saw Bernstein backstage after the performance, stripped to the waist and being massaged by his wife. "Atta boy, Sugar," said Green. "You fought a good fight...
Alone, except for four of his six wives, plump, 59-year-old Ofori Atta awaited the police clad in a long, grey war robe studded with talisman patches of leather. He chewed kola nut (a mild stimulant) as a sign of crisis. Hustled out to a police van, Ofori Atta was driven off through ranks of wailing women, but no spear-brandishing warriors appeared in his defense...