Word: blessing
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...bull stands glazed a moment, then runs off snorting in inexplicable terror. A man in the crowd speaks for all when he says: "God bless...
...suffered under a pagan god as he had suffered from the Christian God. told him: "Through his curse you live a life with god . . . Perhaps one day he will bless you instead of cursing you. But whatever you may do, your fate will be forever bound up with god, your soul forever filled with god." The sibyl's prophecy is fulfilled in Lagerkvist's new book, in which god finally allows Ahasuerus to die. Like Lagerkvist's other novels, this is written in the prose of parables, plain and simple, pared to the essential scene and angle...
...folk-music fans, the newest spectator sport is listening to a quartet of leather-lunged Irishmen crowding around a microphone and taking a few melodious cracks at the English. The song, chances are, will be God Bless England...
...flagpole was hoisted Tanganyika's new flag-green for the land, black for the people, and gold for its mineral wealth. At the stroke of midnight, the lights went on, and over the loudspeaker came the strains of the new national anthem, Mungu Ibariki [God Bless] Tanganyika...
...remarkable way it showed the world how Berlin really felt. One day last week, an elderly woman in a tattered grey coat faced a G.I. bundled on his armored personnel carrier, held out three fresh pink carnations, murmured in German, "I brought you some different colors today; God bless you!" Understanding the sentiment if not the words, the young soldier accepted the flowers with a grin, muttered "Danke schön" proudly stuffed them in the perforated barrel cooler of his 20-mm. cannon. Farther up the street a pack of M48 "Patton" tanks were demurely decorated by jars...