Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EASY to make fun of that kind of education and all the "I hear what you're saying" and relativism that can go along with it. But we never got the feeling, as current strong-values advocates claim, that are no values or standards of right and wrong. We learned that different standards do exist, but that there are gray areas. I definitely came out of class knowing cheating was bad, dying was sad, and not to sleep with that sexy 17-year-old guitar player until at least my 15th birthday. Yet no one ever told me America...
...hear that?" my brother shouted. "Owen? Owen...
...that's, um, super," I said, expecting to hear how a nice Jewish boy from New York had turned to Jesus...
Though Aurelius Augustinus had won a bit of renown, he would surely be unknown to history were it not for the celebrated September day in A.D. 386 when he seemed to hear a child's singsong voice chanting "Tolle lege, tolle lege" (Take up and read, take up and read). Snatching the Bible, which he had once disdained, he read the first words his eyes fell upon: St. Paul's admonition in Romans 13 to abandon wanton living and "put on the Lord Jesus Christ." Instantly, he later wrote, "a light of certainty pierced my heart and all the shadow...
...convinced a lot of us of the need for a strong defense, which is not the conclusion we expected to come to." Yet even the hard-line statements of Chervov and Petrovsky left room for a U.S. official in Riga to say, "If you listen closely, you can still hear them saying they are extremely eager to restrict SDI and they may be willing to pay a significant price in arms control...