Word: kneeling
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...rubric, 'Kneel when you light a fire,' with its implication that you are thereby engaging in an act of reverence...
When Isaac Emanuelovich Babel was ten years old, he saw his father kneel in the mud before a mounted Cossack captain and beg for help while an Odessa mob looted and wrecked the family store. "At your service," the officer said, touched his lemon-yellow chamois glove to his cap, and rode off passionlessly, "not looking right or left . . . as though through a mountain pass, where one can only look ahead." Torn with pity and terror for his father, the boy was also stirred by a sneaking admiration for the Cossack, with his instinctive animal grace and his life...
...airplane. And now look how he has repaid me! I leave it to you. If you say 'forgive,' I will let him go. If you say otherwise . . ." The mob howled for blood; the colonel's hands were bound, and he was forced to kneel in the dust. As the executioner raised his sword, following an old custom, he gave the kneeling man a passing jab in the shoulder, making him jerk forward so that his neck was stretched out tautly for the downcoming stroke. A minute later the mob fell upon the decapitated body and tore...
...morning last week Anthony Eden skipped an important Cabinet meeting. At the summons of Queen Elizabeth, he hurried to the white and gold drawing room of Buckingham Palace. The young Queen bade him kneel before her, and with a glittering sword touched him on each shoulder. When he arose, Britain's handsome Foreign Secretary was Sir Anthony Eden, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter...
...response to "the resurgence of religious feeling and practice in America today,", the Ideal Toy Co. is putting on sale a kneejointed doll that can be made to "kneel in a praying position." <| Religious and economic booms in the postwar U.S. have brought no material gain to clergymen, the National Council of the Churches of Christ reports. Congregational ministers now average $3,313 a year (up from $1,769 in 1939) and United Presbyterian ministers $3,709 (up from $1,979). Allowing for inflation, says the council, the raises leave the ministers a few dollars a month behind where they...