Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he is done, Helms lingers by the door, accepting the pats and neighborly murmurs with grave good grace. But it is nearly 11 a.m. Former Deacon Helms nudges his friends into the air-conditioned expanse of Raleigh's Hayes Barton Baptist Church, and on toward the battle to redeem America from godlessness...
...President Charles de Gaulle began a campaign to restore the full gold standard, proclaiming its merits as a form of payment that is "eternally and universally accepted." On Aug. 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon finally ended the gold-exchange system, when he announced that the U.S. would no longer redeem foreign-held dollars for American gold...
Noonan, like everyone else, was wrong. Bourgeois was traveling around the country, walking, riding in buses, sleeping on the ground, talking endlessly with the peasants he hoped to redeem. He had planned to spend two months in the countryside, but he abandoned his journey after only eleven days when he and some companions found themselves facing a large army column in guerrilla-dominated Morazán province. A few days later, tired and dirty, Bourgeois walked into the U.S. embassy in San Salvador...
Perhaps not winning all the field events incensed Henry. For whatever reason, he tried to redeem himself by substituting, for Peter Nsiah, who is out with a pulled hamstring, in the 400-meter relay. He ran the anchor leg, and along with Dwayne Jones. Jay Hudson and Bennet Midlo won the event. Incidentally, Mark Henry is a freshman...
...beautiful," he growls). He emerges blond and Aryan, the very stereotypic image of the international terrorist. He and his "ruthless" sidekick Shakka--Persis Khambatta, with more hair and less of a role than when last seen in Star Trck--go to New York. Wulfgar is determined to redeem himself in the eyes of the International Underworld by committing spectacular and death-defving acts of terrorism, with full media coverage. While Wulfgar blows up Wall St., Fox and DaSilva are indoctrinated in "Counterterrorist techniques" by Hartmann (Nigel Davenport), an Interpol detective hot on Wulfgar's trail...