Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unwed parents led in order to evade public scorn and prejudice. What better reason for identifying with a people under the yoke of imperialist domination than his own haunting memories of his mother's rigid morality? (An illegitimate child herself, she pleaded with each of her three sons to redeem her by becoming missionaries...
...verse, placing his emphases seemingly at random--as though he knew some accents were needed, but neither he nor Morphos could figure out just where. In his last soliloquy, Pajaczkowski finally captures some of the agony of impending damnation, but the emotion he manifests here is insufficient to redeem the shallowness of the rest of his performance...
...Moore had two more opportunities to redeem herself Saturday afternoon, and she used them well. First, she disposed of Williams's Jane Garvey, 3-1, and then downed Princeton's Cindy Sutter...
...military establishment anxious to restore its credibility after its astounding failure in Indo-China, a Persian Gulf intervention would appear to offer a unique opportunity to redeem past failures by satisfying the compulsion to find and fight a conventional enemy according to conventional ground rules...
...billion in short-term city securities will be asked to exchange them for long-term bonds issued by the Municipal Assistance Corp.; the bonds will pay 8% to 9% interest and mature in ten to 15 years. Noteholders who refuse to make the swap will not be able to redeem their present securities until June 30, 1978; they will continue to draw interest but at a reduced rate...