Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...God gave blessed consolation...
...moments later, Begin announced that "today is President Sadat's [59th] birthday. Let me congratulate you, and may God give you many years to live until 120." Sadat looked puzzled, so Begin explained that "until 120" was a traditional Jewish blessing for long life.* Begin was effusive in his praise of his host. "We all have deep admiration for you and your leadership," he exclaimed. "We all need you and your leadership. Egypt needs you; the Middle East needs you; the world needs you; and even we need...
...opened the innocent-looking letter from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It charged him with twelve federal violations in his bakery in West Warwick, R.I., including electric plugs with two prongs instead of three and a safety railing four inches too low. Deeply hurt, Pinga asked himself: "My God, how can I be guilty? I haven't even had a trial." So he challenged the charges in court and spent $1,500 in legal fees to beat a $90 fine. His heart went out to the young OSHA inspector who broke down on the witness stand and admitted that...
...bodies and fixed, wide-eyed stares, we now feel, are pure spirit. But, as in the fearsome tapestry of St. Theodore, they were also meant to remind the faithful that Big Brother was watching, that the eye of the state found its model in the all-seeing eye of God. With its Christs enthroned as emperors and its emperors carrying the victorious insignia of the church, the official art of the early Christian empire is a sustained paean to the divine right of kings...
...that his morality was repugnant to his sexual nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that his English sense of proportion and Catholic asceticism are at loggerheads with his outlandish success. Chatworth vacillates between such statements as "Conquer America-God what a shoddy ambition," and, like David Frost contemplating a bust of Emmy, "This is the country I want to impress, not the other one, and its approval is now pouring out of the slot like gold...