Word: deeding
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...forgiveness. True, forgiveness can be very difficult. It would be immodest, if not profane, for any of us to claim that we could act similarly to Pope John Paul II when he extended his unsolicited forgiveness to his would-be assassin in 1981. But we can admire this deed as a model for emulation...
THOUGH IT WAS NEVER A FAIR fight, Dole never considered ducking it, or asking someone else, like rising-star Governor John Engler, to do the deed. Dole was worried that rival candidates, notably Phil Gramm, would jump on him for backing out of a fight. Instead, they lacerated him for losing it. "We saw [Clinton's] speech, and it was empty rhetoric," declared Gramm on Thursday. "And we saw Bob Dole's response--it was poor empty rhetoric." The Dole camp also considered a change of venue, like giving the response from Dole's home state of Kansas. But that...
...with the current renovations of Memorial Hall, and in fact such a proposal was anticipated by the original of the Hall. Dedicated to "the graduates and students of the University who died in defense of the Union, or who served in its defense during the Rebellion of 1861," the deed of gift included the stipulation that "no picture, bust, tablet, monument, or memorial shall be allowed within said Hall inconsistent with its intent." So it was until Edgar H. Wells, editor of The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, raised the issue in an editorial in the Bulletin in 1909, in which...
...original deed of Memorial Hall, which was donated by alumni in memory of the Union war dead, prevents the commemoration of the Confederate alumni there...
...building busy with the early-morning comings and goings of innocent people? Federal investigators and journalists quickly began digging into McVeigh's past, looking for pieces of the appalling Oklahoma City puzzle. Not surprisingly, the fragments did not fit together in a way that would convincingly explain a monstrous deed...