Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger riposted softly, "They might feel less inhibited if we didn't have superiority." While concern about Soviet superiority had been raised by other witnesses, such as the Joint Chiefs, it carried extra weight coming from Kissinger. Just five years ago, he declared: "What in the name of God is strategic superiority? What is the significance of it?" But last week he recanted, explaining that the statement had been made "after an exhausting negotiation" and that it "reflected fatigue and exasperation, not analysis." When New York's Jacob Javits later referred to this change of heart, Kissinger jokingly...
...pride, the widow has refused food stamps and welfare. So, when arrested, she was too embarrassed to give her home address. For the first time in her life she spent the night in jail. The next day she was released and the charges were dropped. Said she: "I wish God would close my eyes. I'm so tired of living...
After her story was published, people across the country sent her loaves of bread, tinned vegetables, $2,200 in cash and more than 300 letters of sympathy. This made Mattie Schultz feel better. Said she, with tears in her eyes: "God bless all these people...
...Puppeteer, which was highly suited to the talents of Richard Burbage, for whom Shakespeare fashioned his Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Lear and other major parts. The role is more than three times as long as any other in the play, and the character has been thought to stand for God, Jesus, Fate, Justice, Art, Intellect, the Ideal Ruler, the Colonizer, the Grumpy Old Man, and a host of other things including Shakespeare himself...
...Ariel, who hopes to store up enough brownie points to earn freedom from his master. The very name Ariel suggests the "airy spirit" Shakespeare described him to be, though the name is actually a Hebrew one found in the Old Testament, one of whose meanings apparently was 'hearth of God...