Word: repented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atonement and forgiveness for our enemies, both within and without the land. If peace cannot lead to atonement and forgiveness, the world will be frigid with hate and a trustworthy relationship between nations will be an impossibility. If we cannot forgive those of our own countrymen . . . even though they repent and are paying their penalties, then we will enter the future with an open sore in the national life...
...Wilson (Bob Crosby) thinks of after getting to camp is how to make Uncle Sam bankroll the musical comedy he had hoped to sell to a Broadway producer. He puts on the show. So delighted is the commandant with its morale-building potentialities that he inadvertently causes Wilson to repent, keep the show for the Army...
...Above all, I am convinced that America must repent of selfish isolation, and must assume its full share of our common responsibility for a just and enduring peace...
...forced" to do something on economic grounds, then to do that thing is economically sound. Being "forced" to fight for an economic advantage will make it to our advantage to fight-and whenever anyone speaks now of economic advantages he has unemployment in his mind. Louis XIV repented his policy of war for profit . . . and we will repent it on ours if we ever follow that policy...
Last week Archbishop Schrembs decreed that his interdict should stand indefinitely. But "innocent people of the parish, and those who repent of their crime," could go to neighboring churches, if they made certain acts of submission. Said the Archbishop: "The purpose of this decree is not revenge, since revenge is unknown to the Church of Christ; its purpose is to lead erring children . . . lovingly back to their Father's House...