Word: idol
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...which he discovers to be a wonderfully malleable and useful thing indeed. More splendidly, Gomes seems at last to have liberated the Christian from Calvin's sticky rule, that the Holy Spirit speaking at different times must at least be consistency with himself. Truly, our bondage to the idol of consistency seems a formidable enemy to be overcome; but judging by his prodigious success thus far, I do not doubt but that Gomes is capable of the victory...
...TRUE. Before Rock Hudson's diagnosis was revealed to the public in 1985, many Americans had never heard of AIDS. Afterwards, most had. One press release confirming the affliction of one national idol had done more to raise awareness about the disease than countless volumes of medical journals ever...
...year old kid told a television reporter. That is the essence of this deeply tragic event. Magic's instincts of selflessness and generosity prevailed over all other human responses to this devastating revelation, and as such, proved Magic to be as great a hero, as worthy an idol as we could ever hope to find in a public figure...
...very peculiarities that have made him golf's latest hero if he is to get the most out of his prodigious natural ability. It may be that Daly's swing is too complicated and his game too reliant on intangibles to carry him to the level of his idol Nicklaus. But there is something heroic in the quotable slugger's triumph, and it would be a shame to see him become one of the legion of golf technocrats who threaten to turn the sport into a boring science. There may be a lesson for other pros in the enormous...
Arias, who considers former U.S. President John F. Kennedy '40 to be his idol, is a member of the wealthiest coffee trading family in Costa Rica. He further urged his audience to take control of their world by saying, "You will live most of your lives in the next century. The history of humanity has not known a single century of peace. The opportunity for writing a different history belongs to you... You will have to change 20 centuries of war into a century of peace...