Word: reaffirming
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...haul. Mallory is an excellent lesson in that." Sister Geraldine hurriedly adjusts her veil and prepares to attend Mass. This is the one day of the year when Sisters of the Good Shepherd all over the world renew their vows. No ceremony takes place; Mary Paul and Geraldine will reaffirm their vows in silence at the regular morning Mass at St. Michael's. Geraldine calls upstairs to Mary Paul that they may be late, conjectures that Mary Paul is lost in the morning papers...
White House aides were ecstatic. Reagan called Prime Minister Craxi to thank him for his cooperation in agreeing to prosecute the Palestinians, and to reaffirm that the U.S. very much wanted to prosecute them too. When Admiral John Poindexter, the Deputy National Security Adviser, entered the regular 9:30 NSC briefing for the President the next morning, Reagan rose to attention and snapped his right hand to his forehead. Said the Commander in Chief: "I salute the Navy...
...This course is going to reaffirm my liberal values because everybody in here believes in helping other people," said Peter T. Hinderson '88, who said he may decide to do public-service work because of his experience in the section...
...Premier Hua Guofeng, Mao's choice for the succession, and installed in Hua's place General Secretary Hu Yaobang. The premiership, which Hua also held, went to Zhao Ziyang, the former governor of Sichuan. Last July, Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, who had missed no opportunity in recent years to reaffirm "the purity of Communism," was ousted from his post. Deng Xiaoping has defanged other neo-Maoists, or "whateverists" (so called because of their belief that whatever Mao said was correct) by offering them high posts without power. In April, General Secretary Hu launched an overhaul of regional and local party...
...place ourselves, as athletes, coaches, officials and spectators, above it, if only once in a while. It is precisely because politics can become so base and disgusting--as evidenced by Nazi Germany, or South Africa today--that we have to be above it occasionally, in order to reaffirm whatever shaky kind of faith we have in humanity...