Word: bless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between his teeth, like a dazed dog with an old toy. The war was over. For Douglas, it was time to celebrate and mourn. In a TV interview, he told his dad that he loved him. Douglas said he won the fight "because of my mother, God bless her heart." And then the new undisputed heavyweight champ dissolved into manly tears...
Finally, Andrew Dietderich displays a strong voice in the Russian-ish song about his predicament--"I am nutty as an old cashew (Bless you)." It is unfortunate that his part allows him little opportunity to do anything but yell and scream...
...Banner looks best when compared with its alternatives. "Amber waves of grain" may be more peaceable than "bombs bursting in air," but America, the Beautiful lacks drama. My Country 'Tis of Thee was stolen, note for note, from the British national anthem, God Save the Queen. And God Bless America has obvious problems with the separation of church and state, but it has de facto status as the anthem of the Philadelphia Flyers, who won the Stanley Cup in 1974 after Kate Smith inspired them with the ode to the land that she loved. Still trotted out for big games...
...winning were everything, God Bless America might carry the day. Anyone can belt out a respectable version. America, the Beautiful is not much challenge either. But Americans have been gamely trying to master The Star- Spangled Banner without quite overcoming it for 175 years. In a world that changes every day, that's worth more than lovable lyrics and a manageable melody...
Holiday co-wrote only three songs in her career, "Billie's Blues", "Fine and Mellow", and the now-perennial favorite "God Bless The Child", all inspired by personal experience. In her autobiography Lady Day knowingly said, "With me, it's got nothing to do with working or arranging or rehearsing. Give me a song I can feel, and it's never work...