Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cream flavor has soured. The memory of the genius of Layla, able to redeem hours of poorer Clapton, has disspated: "Innocent Times" on side two whines, "no reason to laught...no reason...
Ever since Moses led the children of Israel out of Egyptian slavery, Jews have been dutybound to redeem their kin from bondage and oppression. In the past two decades Israel and the American Jewish community have concentrated on redeeming Jews in the Soviet Union from discrimination, harassment and, sometimes, outright persecution. LET OUR PEOPLE GO has been the compelling slogan of a massive campaign to win for the U.S.S.R.'s 3 million Jews the right of free emigration. Yielding reluctantly to worldwide pressure, the Kremlin has granted exit permits to about 125,000 Jews since 1970. No other Soviet...
...message that Anglo-Saxons dubbed the godspel and early Greek Christians called the euangelion. Among modern American Protestants, enthusiasts like Wright are identified as evangelicals because they give an urgent priority to spreading the gospel announcement. They want every human being to experience the truth that Jesus died to redeem him from the abyss of sin; they preach that faith in Jesus as Lord and Saviour is necessary for salvation, that the Bible is the one unimpeachable guidebook to faith and life. Those who accept the invitation of the good news are converted or "regenerated"-simply a Latinism for born...
...watch New York City in the past year tottering like a Charlie Chaplin drunk on the brink of bankruptcy. The city is now able to lurch from payday to payday only because of revolving federal loans administered by a disdainful Republican Administration in Washington. New York has refused to redeem certain of its outstanding short-term securities on schedule. It has cut nearly 50,000 full-time employees from the city payroll in the past 18 months, reducing the total to some 250,000, but the end of the crisis is nowhere in sight...
...Congress began issuing the bills last June. Since the Government has promised to redeem them in Spanish silver dollars-the most popular coin circulating-they have been given the Spanish name: dollar...