Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot in the Kali temple. On the fourth day ... he saw coming toward him a person with beautiful large eyes, serene countenance, and fair skin. As the two faced each other, a voice rang out in the depths of Sri Rama-krishna's soul: 'Behold the Christ, who shed His heart's blood for the redemption of the world, who suffered a sea of anguish for love of men. It is He, the Master Yogi, who is in eternal union with God. It is Jesus, Love Incarnate.' The Son of Man embraced...
...native Royal Malta Artillery and the Royal Artillery, raised a curtain of flame that was fearful to behold. Even Moscow never lifted such an ack-ack barrage. Captured German pilots admitted that they had been unnerved by it. It probably saved the island from devastation, saved many a British warship and transport as she lay in the harbors or squatted helplessly in drydock...
...those maps we behold a mind unconsciously conceiving a series of atrocious and irreparable crimes in order to make a more perfect world. He believes, for example, that 'to meet democratic specifications,' we should exterminate the Swiss republic. The reader must bear with me; I know this is revolting...
...Elliott Roosevelt turned up in the White House. Columned Mother Eleanor: "I walked into the White House from the hairdresser's a few minutes ago and noticed a group of bags in the Lincoln room. My curiosity got the better of me and I looked farther. Lo and behold, there was our son Elliott and a civilian friend who had come with him from Africa." She reported further that he had "picked up some sort of germ" and was probably "in for a spell in the hospital...
...doesn't fall in love with Lana Turner till almost the end of the picture. When he does find that he loves her the story becomes lightly trite and melodramatic, but up to then it moves along with a freshness, rapidity, and even originality, which are a pleasure to behold...