Word: blessing
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...make a living. Not that the game has declined. There are as many pool halls as ever - it's just that they like to be called les académies de billard now. No more spittoons, no more raucous voices. Tables are covered with pink felt, and ladies, bless their well-chalked tips, are taking up the game. Pool halls even hire "knockers" to protect patrons from the hustlers. "Nobody gambles any more," sighs Lassiter. The only thing left is to play other hustlers and get TV to pay the salaries. So there they are, traveling from tournament...
They roll'd from place to place, around the bless'd abodes
...help the King write his masterly speech of abdication. It commenced, "At long last I am able to say a few words," and ended hauntingly, "And now we all have a new King. I wish him and you, his people, happiness and prosperity with all my heart. God bless you all. God save the King...
...threatening to shoot Flood if he took possession. With the aid of a locksmith, Flood moved in anyway, with his wife Beverly, 25, and their four children, to be greeted with cheers by practically every family on the block, and a home-cooked meal that moved Beverly to tears. "Bless you all," beamed Flood...
...will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and give all these lands to your offspring, so that all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your offspring-all because Abraham heeded my call and kept my mandate: my commandments, my laws and my teachings...