Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forbid, Catherine, Anna, Julia or Marie slipped out of the house without saying it Thomas Murray would follow them out onto the sidewalk. Sometimes he would catch up to them when they were already in an automobile, and he would lean through a window. "I believe in one God," he would say, and Catherine, Anna, Julia or Marie would...
...Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, is a close follower of Mahatma Gandhi and a man of Spartan ways. Not only is he a teetotaler, but he is also a rigorous vegetarian. Despite his rigid views on such matters, he is recognized to be an excellent and experienced administrator. His Foreign Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, was a Jan Sangh member and a known opponent of Gandhi's policy of supposed nonalignment which actually leaned towards the Soviet Union. In one of his first statements, Desai declared that India would follow a course of 'truer nonalignment.' "The Indo-Soviet Friendship Treaty must not come...
Such is the underground Passover of the people traditionally known as Marranos (secret Jews), a word that originally meant pigs. They live not only in Belmonte but also in many other mountain towns in northern Portugal. Forced to convert to Christianity in the 15th century, they still follow Jewish customs that have been passed on by word of mouth across nearly five centuries. Though they have had virtually no contact with the rest of the world's Jews, many authentic prayers have survived in their ritual, alongside such Christian accretions as the Lord's Prayer...
...finessed by two factors. The most important of them is casting Michael Caine as the assault group's commander. There is not another leading man on-screen today who so consistently exudes a sense of decency and honor without being stuffy about it. If one is willing to follow him into the jaws of hell, then why not, for a couple of hours, into a gale of moral ambivalence? Moreover, we first meet him and his elite unit in Warsaw, putting themselves at risk in a vain attempt to rescue a young Jewish woman from the SS. Thus they...
...else in the family. Because most people select mates with levels of emotional maturity roughly equal to their own, he says, this "weakest child" will grow up to mate with a similarly impaired adult and start the cycle over again at a more disturbed level. Says Bowen: "If we follow the lineage of the weakest child of the weakest child of the weakest child through multiple generations, we eventually emerge with a child so weak it collapses into schizophrenia on emotional or physical separation from the parents...