Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stifled and decided that he was suffocating. Obsessed with the idea that he might die in the night with the record not yet set straight, he promptly penned a letter ordering his lawyer to demand a retrial. "I have never accepted my condemnation," he wrote. "I benefited from a grace I did not ask for." Next day he was as healthy as ever, but still sulking. "I was right all along [during the Vichy period]," he told Isorni. "I was more of a resister than anybody...
Greer Garson, Miriam Hopkins, and Grace Moore moved something called the Hollywood Bachelors' Club to the week's unlikeliest outburst of self-expression. These three ladies, said the fellows, were their very favorite "cats." Then the bachelors explained: "Kittenish dames give us the wim-wams. But it takes a smart woman to be downright catty...
...death Jack Burden finds a love and happiness he had never known. In this does Willie Stark fulfill his own transposition of the Biblical story of the grain of wheat: "good must come out of bad." Surely a knowledge of Evil is the first step on the road to Grace...
...fair), the Liberals would barely control the House. There would be 122 Liberals, plus the Speaker (who does not vote except in case of a tie), plus two independents who usually vote with the Liberals, against an opposition of 120. In short, the Liberals technically would rule only by grace of the two independents...
...enemies, prayers for the persecutor, a preference for giving before receiving. It leads away from both contemporary nationalism and contemporary economics. The churches are not likely to take it, unless-which is not impossible-the ghastly confusion of world politics and economics should work in the churches the grace of a sudden conversion...