Word: blest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose neck is bitten by the Roman collar, I can agree with those who sing Blest Be the Tie that Binds...
Seventeenth century England was much taken by Sir Walter Raleigh's description of an American demi-Eden where it was forever either spring or summer. This balmy land of the blest, he said, lay on the 35th parallel of north latitude-in present-day North Carolina. Rallying to Raleigh, for whom North Carolina named its capital, Southerners have ever since believed in their hearts that their region is kindlier, lovelier and more conducive to the good life than any other patch of earth this side of paradise, and not without reason...
Violetta is a role that Sills has sung only three times before in New York, but close to 300 times elsewhere throughout her career. It remains one of her no blest portrayals...
...Sunday before sat in his small church in Alexandria, Va., believing in the words of the old hymn he sang: "Blessings abound where'er he reigns;/ The prisoner leaps to loose his chains;/ The weary find eternal rest,/ And all the sons of want are blest...
...beneficiaries of the Second Vatican Council, Roman Catholic theologians were among the most blest. Before the Council, most of them seemed to be little more than academic valets to the Popes, limited to being apologists for the fixed doctrinal formulations laid down by the 16th century Council of Trent. When Vatican II opened the doors to modern scholarship, especially biblical research, theologians were quick to seize their new opportunities. Within a few short years, some of them were questioning everything from the church's teachings on sexual ethics to papal infallibility -even such root doctrines as the nature...