Word: behold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often gets the feeling that taking examinations is like playing slot machines: you toss in your hard-earned studies, the grader's mind goes round and round, and, suddenly lo and behold! up pops a grade--often far different from the one you felt you'd won when you took the test. (In justice, it would be said that teachers probably feel the same way about students: they toss in their hard-won knowledge, our minds go round and round...
...Christian churchmen for achieving church unity is more pathetic than peculiar to behold. It is pathetic because it reveals quite clearly that even after some 2,000 years of bloodshed, burning and all manner of proselytizing in the name of the Christ Jesus, Christians still are impelled by his example but unable to comprehend the principle of his action...
...early French settlers in the new South American colony of Guiana in the 18th century, the three tropical islands rising out of the water a few miles off the coast were a sight to behold. According to legend, the largest and most beautiful they named Royale in honor of their sovereign, King Louis XV. The second was named St. Joseph after the patron saint of their voyage, and the third was named Devil's Island because of the angry sea around it. But when the settlers christened the cluster as a whole, they became the authors...