Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents, but they did not coerce her to return. "My mother told me that God doesn't hear me pray any more because I ran away," said Emma. "She told me my soul is in hell. It is not. I have read the Bible. I know that it isn't just the Hooks* that go to heaven, like they told us. All kinds can get there if you live right...
...isn't cut off, I'll walk out!" barked another Representative...
...Italians in voting either left or right. Without minimizing the failure of the coalition parties to gain the bonus for extra seats, I would like to add a few comments from the Italian viewpoint. More than 93% of the 28 million Italian voters turned out for the election. Isn't this an alltime record, especially for a country which has been a democracy only since 1946? Furthermore, Italians did vote for the center parties...
Last week, Bisaccesi hung their brightest bedquilts like flags on the window sills, and went down to hear the Archbishop of Conza bless the bright, new-shining bell. On hand, mopping his forehead with a handkerchief of many colors, sat Louis Salzarulo of Richmond Ind. "Isn't it wonderful of old Luigi," said one villager, "to have the money to have the bell mended...
...18th century, Lap paced about his platform, waved his arms, laced his lectures with gossipy bulletins about the scandals and scoundrels, the brains and bunglers, of the courts and cabinets of yore. Pretending never to be satisfied ("Well," he would say of the best of papers, "this isn't as bad as it could be"), he was happiest holding forth in his own parlor, laughing squeakily at his own jokes, acting out the great scenes of history (his most impressive performance: the routing of the Armada) and merrily stuffing his student guests with quantities of Mrs. Laprade...