Word: impoverish
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...than 50 years ago, V.L. Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought noted that the sharpster appealed to the hidden desires of an otherwise hardworking, pious people. Lindberg considers the ambivalent attitude to be not hypocrisy but rather a theoretical expression of American genius. A con man may impoverish widows and orphans, but he cannot do so without first creating confidence. And confidence, says the author, who is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, is what America is all about...
...divinity student, I am dismayed by the continuing efforts of U.S. Protestants to create one united church [Feb. 11]. It is one thing to agree that the church is the body of Christ. It is quite another to impoverish that body by stressing uniformity and compromise. In 7 Corinthians, St. Paul writes: "The body does not consist of one member, but of many." One united church would be weaker than a group of churches expressing the Christian faith in its authentic diversity...
...participants spend long hours in silent and solitary contemplation amidst wilderness surroundings. One notable visitor to the Arizona retreat was Jesuit Theologian Walter J. Burghardt, a member of the Pope's Theological Commission. "What do I think of it all?" he wrote about his contemplative experiences. "Words impoverish. For it was at once tempestuous and calming, a wrestling and a dancing, a stillness and a cry. Nothing in my 57 years rivals...
...lost all his money at cards. Meanwhile, the town's mayor receives words that an inspector general, travelling incognito, is to pay a surprise visit to the town, where he will inevitably discover all of the pecadillos and greater sins the administrators have made habitual. The officials mistake the impoverish Khlestakov for the Inspector General, and he is wined, dined, and "lost" money (the officials leading it think that they are bribing him to ignore their corruption). When he decides he must leave temporarily, he is given the best coach and fastest horses in town...
...think you know much more than I do about what the Vietnamese call the "ban cung hoa de tri" (impoverish [the1...