Word: feast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that has shall be given," leaving one's father and mother to follow Jesus, and some of the Beatitudes, e.g., the poor having the kingdom of heaven. Many parables are also included: the sower, the thief in the night, the tares, the mustard seed, the marriage feast, the wicked tenants, the pearl, the hidden treasure...
...fifty years old today, on this feast of St. Mark, the beloved evangelist with whose lion heart my own . . . beats like a drum; and if you think that I am going to starve for your benefit, so that you may pirate my work after my death, you are a sillier man even than your pug-dog's eyes and slopping lips would indicate ... I await your cheque...
Caviar, pheasant and brandy were a cheap feast for the valuable service Senator Humphrey rendered to Khrushchev by conveying eight hours' propaganda, boasts and threats to the U.S. and the world...
...midyear. The important discovery for long-term investors was that steel could make money even at surprisingly low operating rates; it was no longer at the mercy of feast-or-famine cycles...
...East-West love feast that surrounds Flower Drum Song is no accident, for Rodgers and Hammerstein themselves have reached an almost Oriental serenity in an otherwise hectic and often squalid business. As much as any of their Chinese characters, R. & H. have family feeling. Since they have a permanent production outfit (unlike most other theater men, who fold up after each show), they have given employment to generations of performers. Example: one of Flower Drum's brightest young dancers, Patrick Adiarte, 15, started at eight as one of the younger children in The King and I, kept on playing...