Word: binds
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...inspire the moderate groundswell of opinion that rallied to the civil rights movement; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Said Goodman at the time: "Our grief, though personal, belongs to the nation. The values our son expressed in his simple action of going to Mississippi are still the bonds that bind this nation together...
Gothic Eccentricity. Unlike many Catholic writers, Miss O'Connor never felt caught in the traditional bind between religion and art. "When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist," she said, "I have had to reply ruefully that because I am a Catholic, I cannot afford to be less than an artist." What she did was make literature her highest office by accepting the Thomist dictum: "The good of an art is to be found, not in the craftsman, but in the product of the art" "The fiction writer," she observed, "writes...
...must try somehow to find a way to bind up this hemorrhaging of Arab pride and self-respect by recovering Egypt's lost territory is Gamal Abdel Nasser. It may be true, as he now insists, that he was pushed by Syria into the showdown with Israel in 1967. But it was he, in his longtime self-appointed role as the leader of all Arabs, who led Egypt, Jordan and Iraq into the war, and his country was the heaviest loser in men, arms, land and prestige. Today Nasser is the one to whom most Arabs look to get back...
...Burden. The fiscal bind is the same one that faces every school system in the nation, public or private: soaring costs of construction and plant maintenance, more expensive training aids and equipment, and a doubling of teachers' salaries during the past decade. But some of the bills piling up are the result of specifically Catholic problems. The rising cost of teachers, for example, is even worse for parochial schools because there are fewer members of religious orders available for teaching jobs. The reason is the sharp decrease in religious vocations, plus a diversification of some orders into other lines...
Mantle believed it. He underwent surgery five times to remove torn cartilage from his knees and bone chips from his right shoulder. For eight seasons he had to bind each leg from ankle to thigh with 7-ft. strips of foam-rubber bandages "to hold things together." Even so, in his final years, he was reduced to hobbling around the field like a cart horse. And at the plate, each time he swung the bat he noticeably winced and grunted with pain...