Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweating Conclusion. He stretched out on a bunk as the presidential Constellation Columbine bore him north to Washington; on arrival he went straight to the White House. He had intended to give his speech a final going-over, but instead lay down on a red satin sofa, pulled a blanket up to his chin, and sent word to the editors that he would arrive just after lunch. He seemed hale enough as he walked into the banquet hall at the Statler Hotel, and stood smiling as Hail to the Chief was pumped out by the Marine Band. His voice...
...Roman Catholic authors. For prizes, the school gave out small religious statues; it taught Catholic songs, said Catholic prayers, and on holy days, it was apt to shut down. Even its report cards were different: they not only graded pupils on their progress in religious training, they also bore the heading "Diocese of Rockford...
Lovely said that "the chapel in the Yard." (Appleton Chapel) and Andover Hall's chapel "should be enough for those who want that type of piety." He observed that prayer before meetings would offend some and bore others who do not have the same interpretation of the world "piety...
What visiting West German critics saw were rank upon rank of slavish, posterlike pictures and sculpture dedicated to tested propaganda themes. They bore such titles as World Youth Festivals, To the Patriot Philipp Müller,* The First Furrow for the Collective Farm, and the styles were all obedient, School-of-Moscow realism. There were glorified scenes of farmers and construction workers, kindly Red soldiers surrounded by admiring children, ball-fisted strikers and heroic rioters-all with clear brows, stern eyes and rippling muscles...
...20th century, however, it was plain to see that Throne and Altar had its drawbacks. Sheltered by the umbrella of the Supreme Bishop's authority and supported by state funds,, the official Lutheran Church often became a state bureaucracy and bore little active Christian witness in the life outside the church doors...