Word: blessed
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Give to Receive. The Ismailis are a prosperous minority scattered mainly through Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Naturally industrious, they gave tithes for more than 40 years to Karim's grandfather, the old Aga Khan, and their gifts came back to bless them. A playboy but a shrewd financier, the old Aga Khan invested the Ismailis' money in blue-chip stocks, used the proceeds to finance a network of Ismaili banks, shops and factories. In Ismaili communities, he built hospitals, mosques and schools. He left an estimated $800 million, though the young Aga Khan warns...
...long, the American foreign aid and cultural exchange programs have suffered from an attitude that friendship can be bought, that a distribution of the material and cultural wealth of the United States is sufficient to guarantee the allegiance of those whom we choose to bless with our generosity...
...suite at Chicago's Sheraton-Blackstone last week strode Barry Morris Goldwater, his jaw squared, his iron-grey hair brushed back. A flood of humanity, with its placards and dizzying array of Goldwater-for-President buttons, heaved against him as he tried to push his way through. "God bless you!" they cried. "The country needs you, Barry!" they yelled. "I want to shake your hand! You're the only real Republican in the running!" A man thrust a book under his nose shouting "Autograph my Bible!" and handed him a copy of Barry's credo, The Conscience...
Only November could tell whether, as Anderson hoped, the voters would bless the Republicans for the surplus-or whether, as an aftermath of big spending promises made during the campaign, the surplus might some day wind up in the Smithsonian with such artifacts of the good old days as Dolley Madison's inauguration gown and the Spirit of St. Louis...
...heart can bless, or the sad skin...