Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...content with the labor of tearing down...
...Good Guy and The Bad Guy shoot it out to supply the answer to the second most important question the picture poses: Who is faster on The Draw? Nobody seems to know the answer to the most important question: Why is Robert Taylor, a man of considerable general culture, content to spend most of his working hours grubbing around in the bottom of the oatbin...
...Wladyslaw Gomulka, though he has a long Communist career of knuckling under, this was a humiliating concession, but, if he wanted to survive, Gomulka would almost certainly have to make far greater and more humiliating concessions in the future. The consensus was that Nikita Khrushchev was unlikely to rest content until the stubborn Poles were once again nothing but Soviet serfs...
...commission granted, lay a man low, and therefore "many sick persons are in need of assistance which medical science in itself cannot supply," but in cases of so-called spiritual healing "there could never be established scientific evidence which would compel the conclusion that it was the spiritual content of the ministrations which had brought about the cure." In an appendix on "Christian Science and Spiritualism," the commission characterized Christian Science as "in clear conflict with the Christian Gospel," and added that "had the Church faithfully and intelligently carried out our Lord's commission to heal, Christian Science would...
Remnants of Gallows' Humor. Only slowly did the full content of the Hitler horror dawn on the Warsaw Jews. At first it seemed that in the German victory over Poland, they would only exchange one anti-Semitic prison for another. Even when that illusion died, much wry humor remained. The Germans were "the others." An "organist" was a reliably bribed German or official. A "musical" was a man who would take an occasional bribe. "Caterpillar tanks" was the word for those refugees so heavily burdened with their belongings that they could barely crawl. Deported Jews coming into Poland wearing...