Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern kolkhoz; that's why he had to argue for weeks to break down the resistance of schoolgirls. And then, if the girl was ready to sign up, her mother would hit the roof. 'What? My daughter muck around in the manure! Is that why my husband and I sweated our guts out and educated...
Translated from a Latin manuscript into thee-and-thou English by Writer Catherine Van Dyke, the Letter tells how Claudia's son Pilo had his withered foot cured by Jesus. Overcome, Claudia tries to convert her husband to faith in Christ, but Pilate is an intellectual, and a nut about philosophy, and won't bite. From her vantage point near Herod's Palace, Claudia describes Christ's passion in gory detail: "Jesus, bound to a pillar, and standing in a red pool of his own blood." After the Crucifixion, Pilate loses favor with Rome, and ends...
...move freely through Stone's interior grillwork walls, so does sound. "You can't have a quiet chat anywhere in the house without being heard everywhere," says Mrs. Galbraith, exercising a woman's right to a little exaggeration. "When we have house guests, my husband and I talk over plans for the day in our private living room, but find it quite unnecessary to discuss them later with our guests. They've already overheard every word. It is a house for open diplomacy, openly arrived...
...highlights of the evening was the presence of Madame Alphand the Ambassador's stunning wife. Madame Alphand listened to her husband's speech silently from her seat in the second row. After the speech students pressed around her to ask her questions, before she slipped into the limousine with her husband...
...them on. There was, for instance, Ma Barker, who moved to St. Paul with two of her four sons in 1933 to set up the most successful kidnaping gang in the Midwest. Ma took the boys to church every Sunday. Tiny, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker ran away from her husband with Texas Gunman Clyde Barrow and celebrated by writing adolescently boastful verses to the newspapers...