Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months there was nobody quite like Glenn. Even Prince Philip, whom Elizabeth met in London, could not undo the gift-wrapping on her heart. "English girls think he's so good-looking," hummed Elizabeth. "I guess our standards are just different...
Before boarding the transport in Naples harbor last week, Jan Olechny sold a few articles of clothing, bought some lemons as a gift for his family. Aboard ship an American officer told him Josepha and Riszard were eating lunch below desk. "I am sorry," he said, "you 11 have to wait." Obediently Jan sat down and waited...
Dead Cherokee. Essentially, the show is a platform for the display of Merman's singing voice, which ranges from a 100-proof whisper to a strident bellow, her theater-born gift of timing, and her immaculately correct intonation for every funny line. With this bristling arsenal, Ethel puts starch into the feeblest jokes; her rowdy, slam-bang personality is nearly as full-bodied on the air as it was in such Broadway smashes a Annie Get Your Gun, Something for the Boys and Du Barry Was a Lady...
...Gift of God. During the summer and fall of 1947 a sort of premonition of Gandhi's martyrdom had oppressed Sheean; he spoke of it to friends and editors and finally persuaded Editor Ted Patrick of Holiday to send him to India. In New Delhi, he hung around with other American reporters during the days of Gandhi's last fast, then went...
...whether certainty of God preceded renunciation of the world. Gandhi answered at once, "No, the renunciation precedes the certainty." Then he quoted to Sheean the first verse of the Isha Upanishad: "The whole world is the garment of the Lord. Renounce it, then, and receive it back as the gift...