Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changing since we were kids, what with the new math, computers, and the like." He frightened one lady so that she wouldn't even open the door. One old biddy got pretty insistent, trying to find out what two total strangers were doing on her doorsill that Bill, God bless him, retorted--completely in jest of course--that "we aren't mad rapists, lady...
...death ..." They heard the words of St. Paul to the Romans: "For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God." They all rose and sang with remarkable force a 19th century hymn: "I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless;/ Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness." The church was not really sad just then-the significance of the moment to the men and women there went beyond grief. Hate died. As the service ended, there seemed to be almost a conscious effort by adversaries to seek each other...
...bless the child that...
...million home of the Grand Ole Opry. As 4,400 country music fans applauded, Nixon said that their kind of music "radiates the love of this nation?patriotism." He flubbed an attempt at spinning a Yo-Yo given him by Country Music Star Roy Acuff and played God Bless America and Happy Birthday on the piano to honor his wife Pat, just back from South America, on her 62nd birthday. In a relaxed evening, there was no talk of his Watergate agony...
...Eminence the Archbishop of Budapest used in his prayers such beautiful expressions as, for instance: 'God bless our bayonets that they may pierce deeply into your enemies' bellies...