Word: beholding
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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...
...enthusiasm for the Bill, the President is in the great tradition of the Anti-Corn Law League, granddaddy of all Free Trade movements; its members used to insist that there were passages in the Bible which forecast the advent of Free Trade. (This passage, from Exodus, was especially popular: "Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; get you down thither, and buy for us from them, that we may live...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with a witty mind (Director-Librettist Abe Burrows) and a hero of exuberant guile (Robert Morse), whose rise from window to executive seat polishing is a joy to behold...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with a witty mind (Director-Librettist Abe Burrows) and a hero of exuberant guile (Robert Morse) whose rise from window cleaning to executive seat polishing is a joy to behold...
...makes me feel naked. We're just a couple of pins on the Bishop's map! You're a black pin; I'm a beige pin. TER. Now, there, there, don't yourself...the ground is I can feel it. (Standing.) me in mind of one of Pappy's "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in and thou shalt smite the rock," (he strikes the stage with his umbrella) "and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink...