Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought in with part of his abdomen hanging outside his body. He was fully conscious. With his left hand he tried to scoop his intestines back inside...
...only creature that can imagine being someone else. The fantasy of being someone else is the basis of sympathy, of humanity. Daydreams of possibility enlarge the mind. They are also haunting. Around every active mind there always hovers an aura of hypothesis and the subjunctive: almost every conscious intellect is continuously wandering elsewhere in time and space...
Clearly moved, John Paul offered a paternal appeal to his young listeners. "You feel conscious of your own inadequacy and afraid of what the future may hold for you," he said. "I say to you: Place your lives in the hands of Jesus. . . He will make such use of your lives as will be beyond your greatest expectations . . . Do not let the sight of the world in turmoil shake your confidence in Jesus. Not even the threat of nuclear war." Like the speech containing similar moral lessons the previous Saturday at Wembley Stadium, which was interrupted 25 times with warm...
Although the peace theme captured the headlines of a war-conscious Britain, the long-run significance of the trip will probably be its effect on the fortunes of Christianity in Britain-and on the Vatican's future course on Christian ecumenism. The Pope's agenda reflected not the imperial hand of the Vatican conservative old guard, but the more cosmopolitan touch of Britain's Catholic hierarchy. All observers agreed that the Pope's visit was without doubt his most ecumenical tour. Two significant interchurch services took place in Canterbury and Liverpool, and there were several conferences...
...forceps delivery severed a facial nerve, paralyzing one side of his lip, chin and tongue. Though he is a colorfully articulate speaker, Stallone must carefully pick his way through sentences. Says he: "I've got what you'd call a Mafioso voice, and I'm self-conscious about it." Father Frank, a Sicilian immigrant, moved the family to Silver Springs, Md., and opened a beauty shop. His mother Jacqueline, a former "Long Stem Rose" chorine in a Billy Rose revue, started her own business, a workout salon. The family exercise, however, was social climbing. It left...