Word: repentantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with tenacity and eloquence. Beneath Rogers' malarkey, his swagger and his courtroom stunts was a real compassion for the outcasts of the world. "Who are we to take life, life given to this man by whatever power gives life?" he demanded. "To rob him of his chance to repent, to expiate, to throw him straight into hell like a bundle of old rags and bones? 'Thou shalt not kill,' the Bible says. Who made us exceptions to this...
...desire to "destroy himself because he can no longer tolerate the discrepancy between how he appears to himself and how he would like to be," 2) a need "to punish the other person who has been so frustrating and has brought him so much hurt," 3) an urge to repent for some sin, and 4) a cry for help-"Please rescue me, don't leave me alone." The best that a college can do for such disturbed students, said Braaten and Darling, is to give them a medical leave of absence for treatment away from the campus, "where...
...Similar reasoning prompted Britain's Jewish publisher, Victor Gollancz, to suggest that Eichmann be sent to a kibbutz (collective farm) in Israel, "where he would live in an atmosphere of Christian (or, rather, Jewish) love, and he might learn the right way of living and repent his appalling sins...
...week also brought a reminder that Jordan's New Frontier is still troubled by old frontiers and old hates. While Wasfi Tal's new government started work, a harmless British eccentric, 56-year-old Ann Lasbury, on a visit to the Holy Land, tried to plant a "Repent" banner on the top of Mount Zion. which straddles the Israel-Jordan border. Fearing a dawn Israeli attack, a Jordanian sentry shot her through the head...
...slothful do not always suffer for their sins. William Hickey, the son of a prosperous London attorney, gathered rosebuds by the armload for the greater part of his life, suffered no ill effects except those that could be cured by doses of mercury, and showed no inclination either to repent or boast when cooling blood gave him the leisure to write it all down...