Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grown man or woman to dancing with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball." It is also about hope, a necessity for disappointed fans. Especially for long-frustrated Red Sox fans, who after a tough season now cry out, with complete faith, "wait 'til next year...
Occasionally, when a wayward voter rebuffed their earnest entreaties, they dropped to their knees to pray for the misguided soul heading toward the ballot boxes in the crowded Ames, Iowa, arena. But when their candidate finally strode onto the podium with the beaming countenance of a man blessed with faith in the righteousness of his path, the campaign workers leaped off their feet in joy. Leaning forward with the mild-mannered charm of a televangelist talking to a camera, yet drawing on the rhythmic cadences of a polished preacher, the Rev. Pat Robertson delivered an ecumenical version of the message...
...reasons I think he was picked was because the former senior tutor wanted him," said Currier House Co-Master Holly M. Davidson. "I have very good faith...
...THIS writing, the downward spiral of the Aquino administration is continuing. Military commanders, unimpressed with Aquino's brand of leadership, are increasingly drawn to Honasan; the people, seeing the administration threatened, are beginning to lose faith in Aquino as a capable president...
...rights. He explains away his opposition to the Public Accommodations Bill, a forerunner of the Civil Rights Acts, as an "intellectual mistake" commited when he was under the sway of hard-core libertarianism. While Bork has corrected this flaw in his thinking, he has relaced it with a dogmatic faith in "the jurisprudence of Original Intent." This theory would bind America to the specific 18th Century values (allegedly) held by specific 18th Century gentleman. Lost in Bork's theoretical shuffle would be the broad guarantees the Framers actually bothered to write into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...