Word: repentantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listeners in fun-loving, nominally Roman Catholic Paris. At his first public meeting, some 9,000 people flocked into the huge Vélodrome d'Hiver (capacity: 20,000) to hear him. Standing beneath a giant Scoreboard, Billy exhorted them, in short, hard-hitting sentences, to "repent, receive Jesus Christ through faith, and surrender and commit everything to Jesus Christ." After each sentence, he waited while U.S.-educated French Baptist Minister Jacques Blocher translated his words into French at the same speed and with the same intonation and gestures...
Last week Korea's Ministries of Home and Education distributed a new Rhee ukase demanding that "married monks should repent their past and become laymen." The badly frightened family men, who claim that Buddhist priests have been marrying for 300 years, met with representatives of the protesting faction of celibates and offered to cede them the top temple priesthoods and move their families out of the priestly residences and into village quarters. At week's end the unmarried 700 were still insisting on out-and-out expulsion...
...stranger, a few try to gang up on the intruder only to find that time moves backward with each infringement of another man's rights. At length, they realize that the day is Dec. 15, the 163rd anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights. When they repent, time, once again, moves ahead. Reginald Rose's expert script and a fine cast made Studio One the week's No. 1 entertainment...
...caballero has asked me who is the greater sinner," continued the radio voice, "he who sins against chastity or he who sins against charity? It is my conviction that, as the hour of death draws near, believers repent of their sins against chastity, while those who have stolen money or the good reputation of neighbors rarely repent, and even more rarely do anything to restore what they have taken . . . Without belittling the dangers deriving fromlust, we should watch out even more for the dangers of breaking the Seventh and Eighth Commandments. I fear it is a trick of the Devil...
...Social origins?" asked the court chairman. "Son of a miller," came the halting, hesitant reply. "Does the defendant plead guilty?" "Yes," said the same slow, careful voice. It paused, then went on: "I confess ... I repent...