Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that a wrongdoer, no matter how highly placed, repent before he is forgiven. King David of Israel, warned by the prophet Nathan of impending punishment for his crime in stealing Bathsheba, threw himself into days of fasting and prayer to avert divine wrath. King Henry II of England, whose burst of temper led to the murder of Thomas a Becket, submitted to a barebacked scourging by the monks of Canterbury as part of his penance for his complicity in the crime. Such dramatic mortifications may have sometimes masked a lack of genuine contrition in the sinner, but they were...
...this month. "When you drink, the time arrives when you don't eat any more; if you don't eat, then you get tired; if you get exhausted too much, then you don't sleep well; and if you don't sleep well, then you burst." After describing herself as basically happy, tolerant and honest, Sagan added: "As for my negative side, you could say that I am lazy, cowardly and that I am fond of all the excesses...
...Bruce's performance, say the producers, is worth enduring all his vagaries. The first time out, as Bruce bloodily "tore apart" a fellow actor, even the hard-crusted crew burst into applause. On a later occasion, as Bruce "tore apart" a victim, Actor Chris Rebello, 5, playing the son of the town's police chief, burst into terrified tears...
...jovial. When a Dutch correspondent asked last week if the press secretary's forebears came from Holland, terHorst provoked laughter by replying in fractured Dutch. When he confessed that he simply did not know the answer to one question, instead of trying to evade it, a few reporters burst into applause...
...James W. McCord Jr., 50, whose letter to Judge John Sirica burst the Watergate dam, has told friends that sermons in suburban Washington's Fourth Presbyterian Church had a powerful impact on his decisions that winter. On the first Sunday of January 1973, McCord, a Methodist who had started attending the church only weeks before, heard the Rev. Richard Halverson, Washington's best-known evangelical preacher, talk about the power of Satan that tempted leaders to play God. The next week, when approached by White House Aide John Caulfield, McCord refused to plead guilty and remain silent...