Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of the worldwide crescendo of concern for them, Indochina's refugees remain the victims of acts of God and man. Though President Carter dispatched a five-ship Seventh Fleet task force to pick up whatever boat people it could find, the Navy rescue mission was temporarily halted after twelve days, when the 150 m.p.h. winds of Typhoon Hope whipped the South China Sea into a cauldron of death. Some 443 Vietnamese aboard three junks barely made it to Hong Kong after being pushed back to sea from Macao by Portuguese officials the day before the storm...
...English. By the church's good fortune, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer edited the original Book of Common Prayer with such felicity that it has stood for centuries as a literary masterpiece. Its familiar phrases strike to the Anglican mind and heart and indeed can stir anyone who loves God or great language: "Almighty and most merciful Father . . . We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought...
...traditional "We praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord" becomes in one version "You are God: we praise you; You are the Lord...
Will she continue acting? She looks surprised. "Sure. God, I don't know what else I could do. They got me when I was a baby." But the thought does not trail off there, and this teenager, who has been interviewed too many times, sounds resilient. "I also want to do other things, like open a business, maybe design clothes or go and help people with problems, like help the refugees in those boats...
...quest begins with a shock. Upon hearing of his father's death, Wolff blurts out "Thank God." Feeling both self-righteous and ashamed, he decides to plow back into the past, trying to find the man who both made and ruined large swatches of his son's life. A cousin stares at him and says, "He was a gonif, a schnorrer. He was just a bum. That's all he ever was." Wolff decides that the man he once adored must have been more than that...