Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revived Lutheran confession, unlike the Roman Catholic sacrament, is voluntary and not regarded as essential to salvation. Any Christian, the synod declared, whether ordained or not, may hear another's confession and grant absolution; if the penitent believes and is genuinely sorry for his sins, he is truly forgiven...
...soon tell them what to say"). He warned his editors that he did not "believe in hobnobbing with politicians," demanded that the paper be independent and make up its own mind. When circulation gains were slow, Northcliffe slashed the price from threepence to a penny, overnight tripled sales. "I hear that the Old Lady of Printing House Square," he chortled, "gathered up her skirts and shrieked as at the sight of a man under the bed in the face of a real increase in demand for the Times for the first time since her middle...
...most cowardly attacks in history . . . Perhaps ... [I] hit some guilty consciences and they yelled to high heaven. I was crucified on the House floor . . ." But the House, apparently confident that it had settled the miscreant's hash with one massive swat, did not seem to hear...
...panting. He founded the Northern Dispensary, helped found the University of London and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. He was chief physician to the Spanish embassy and the Milbank penitentiary, and when he lectured at the London Institution, students and ladies of fashion alike flocked to hear...
Chairman Floyd Odium waved gaily at familiar faces. Everybody relaxed under Odium's charm and talked of the Big Deal, Atlas' purported merger with Kaiser-Frazer, which had kept Wall Street and Los Angeles abuzz for three months. Now they expected to hear all about it from the master financier...