Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duarte later told it, the emotional high point of his roughly two-hour trip to the talks came as his red Toyota pulled away from the last army checkpoint, 16 miles south of La Palma. Two officers stepped up to say goodbye. Recalled Duarte: "They said, 'God bless you, and may you bring back peace.' That means I had convinced them of what I was trying...
...lost three straight and is but 10 and 10 at home. Faust is a devout Catholic, and Irish followers are not devoid of faith. When Steve Oracko made a big kick in the '40s and an assistant coach, spotting from inside the Scoreboard, shouted joyously, "God bless you, Oracko!," weren't the fans below certain that they had heard the voice of Knute Rockne? Lately they are remembering that both Rockne and Ara Parseghian were Protestants...
...political action group, the Senator argued that on issues such as abortion, school prayer and homosexuality "the proper role of religion is to appeal to the free conscience of each person, not the coercive rule of secular law." He warned that "we cannot be a tolerant country if churches bless some candidates as God's candidates-and brand others as ungodly or immoral." The logical separation between private morality...
...know, I don't really appreciate the Virgin Mary. She always looks so dull"). West is mischievously iconoclastic about famous authors as only one who has rubbed elbows with them can be. Shaw's was "a poor mind, I think"; Maugham "couldn't write for toffee, bless his heart...
...once upon a time, they all used to scream for ice cream. But many Americans today are more likely to pine for the impossible: a tasty, low-cal, no-cholesterol, nondairy frozen delight-and make it all natural too, please. Only a dream, say cynics. Tofutti, says David Mintz. Bless you, say many converts who believe Mintz's Tofutti may be the answer. Indeed, Americans are licking up 40,000 gal. a week of his chilly concoction. Production has nearly doubled in the past month. Move over Frusen Gladje and frozen yogurt; this is the summer of Tofutti...