Word: repentantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong with shorts, sandals, and sports shirts. But Harvard men (much less Harvardmen) should know better. I call upon my brethren to return to the ways of old. Let us distinguish ourselves from the surrounding mass, with some outward sign of our inward grace. Let our sisters of Radcliffe repent their evilly unclad ways and join us in proud return to Cambridge traditions. Jacob Rondelle...
...stony silence of the white people, the FBI men studied the lists with profound interest. All the while, the summer sun beat down on Fayette County and on the sign that rises conspicuously along U.S. Highway 64 at the entrance to the county seat of Somerville. It says: REPENT OR PERISH...
...devising a fouler ritual was under obligation to pass along his recipe immediately to his less inventive colleagues. Since there were seven basic oaths, which could be taken over and over again, Mau Mau ceremonies thus became perpetual orgies. The result was that, when a Mau Mau convert did repent and vomit out his story to authorities, he sometimes ended by humbly asking to be taken out and shot. His sense of absolute degradation and "absolute sin," says the Corfield report, left him no choice...
...leathery veterans turn away from their pepper games and sliding drills to watch. When the Los Angeles Dodgers' Frank Howard, 23, puts the power of his 6-ft. y-in., 240-lb. body behind the swing of his 37-in. bat, he can smash drives that make infielders repent choosing their profession, and send outfielders scrambling back to the orange groves. Says Dodger Coach Pete Reiser: "I've never seen anyone hit the ball like Howard, and I saw Kiner when he came up, and Greenberg in his prime...
...minded Nina was in prison awaiting sentence for what the weekly Oggi could only describe as "the most senseless crime in Sicily's history." Once too often the hapless Salvatore had passed by the Giurlando farmhouse, and Nina had fired four fatal bullets into his body. "Do you repent of what you have done?" she was asked by the authorities. "Why should I repent?" she cried. "I was dishonored." The medical examination that declared her still a virgin meant nothing to Nina. Monotonously, tonelessly, she kept repeating: "He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed...