Word: kneeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Avila enlisted him in her crusading reform of the Carmelite order. Anti-reform monks kidnaped and imprisoned him in a cell in Toledo's Carmelite priory for eight months, where he was taken out once a day to eat crusts and water on the refectory floor, and kneel while the monks tried to change his mind by walking in a circle around him, lashing his bare back with leather whips...
...tide of terror rolled on. Shanghai's Liberation Daily reported the execution of 208 "counter-revolutionaries," who were made to kneel in a suburban lot one afternoon while a firing squad finished them off from the rear. For the first time, as a new service to its readers, the Daily printed the names of the victims...
...hymns were sombre: "Hail World Tree, so beautiful. All hail, all hail, incomprehensible," or "Hail World Tree, we humbly kneel beneath thy boughs of stainless steel...
...latest undertaking began about eight months ago after Mrs. Shelhamer heard of the suicide of a prominent Washingtonian. "I just walked around the house and prayed. I didn't even kneel. 'Lord Jesus,' I said, 'why couldn't I contact some of these people before they commit suicide?' " A newspaperman wrote the classified ad for her and paid to run it daily for three months. Her telephone seems to have been ringing steadily ever since. One Sunday, the busiest day, she got no calls...
...believe the reunion of American Protestantism a far easier task than is generally thought. When I sit with ministers and laymen of other communions in committee, or kneel with them in prayer, or unite in worship, I know I am with Christian brothers. I know we are one. I am convinced that such men, sitting in conference and charged with effecting union, could do so...We simply do not want it enough. We do not love enough...