Word: infirmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigating apartheid-era crimes. Even though the 82-year-old patriarch remains unapologetic about apartheid, authorities are likely to cut Botha a deal involving some form of private testimony, says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne: "He's too old and infirm to be put in jail...
...will carry the very Spirit of God." The view has shown up in the official Promise Keeper News. Its July issue describes the current era as a time of "crisis" for the nation: "The legal undermining of the sanctity of human life, from the preborn to the old and infirm, represents a rejection of America's two-century-old tenet that mankind is made in God's image and is a repudiation of morality as a factor in court decisions...
Oliver Stone is not a naive man. A veteran spin doctor and veritable walking quote farm, Stone never projects an image without meaning to. So why this show of insecurity? Why the infirm stance, the frequent sighs? Has a brutally public life finally broken the director the Los Angeles Times once branded "The Most Dangerous Man in America...
...poor and needy who, crushed by want and destitution, live in conditions unworthy of human dignity." It took Rome two years to say yes, and in 1950 the Vatican formally established the Missionaries of Charity, commanding members of the order "unremittingly" to seek out the poor, abandoned, sick, infirm and dying. Teresa warned that it was work few persons could endure; each volunteer was told that only a "burning fire" would succeed. With the establishment of the order, Sister Teresa became Mother Teresa, leading a ministry to the destitute, doomed and dying. The order's guiding theme...
...Berezovsky has been deputy secretary of Russia's security council, the top-level body that coordinates defense and security issues. He will play a major role if Yeltsin's continuing ill health leads to a political crisis. If the Russian political establishment ever concludes that the President is too infirm to remain in office, Berezovsky will be intimately involved in that decision...