Word: isten
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...down on the farm where he milked 20 cows every morning and coped with lost sheep and a smelly goat. Then he switched to his favorite sermon text, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (in Hungarian: "Ugy szerette, Isten a világot, hogy egy szülött Fiát adta oda"). When Graham concluded by asking the Hungarians to signal their rededication to Jesus Christ, thousands of arms were raised in response...
Jacques Istel, president of the committee of the Sixth world championship of sport parachuting, currently being held in Orange, led the discussion of sky-diving. Isten was the man who introduced the sport to the U.S. in the fifties...
Before the Hungarian water poloists went on to win the finals, they stood with some of their countrymen at Melbourne's airport and sadly said goodbye to others who climbed into an airplane and headed back to Europe. The band played the stirring music of Isten Aldd Meg a Magyart (Lord of Heaven Bless Our Land) as the plane roared away, and those on the ground wondered whether to return home or start new lives elsewhere...
...dear Reader, happen to have a glass in hand, filled to the brim with mellow Hungarian wine, remember the old Hungarian peasant saying: Adjon Isten bort, buzát, békességet - God give us wine, wheat and peace." So mused the magazine New Hungary recently in a wistful article on the possibility of exporting more wine...
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