Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of all to my Lord and my savior, my redeemer, the one who I serve and I love and I worship," Swaggart said. "I bow at his feet who has saved me and washed me and cleansed me. I have sinned against...
...opera-bouffe dimensions. The megalomaniacal Chaim Rumkowski, a failed Jewish industrialist who, probably with Nazi support, set himself up as the president of the Lodz ghetto, had the power to print his own currency and stamps bearing his portrait. In the end Rumkowski came to believe he was the savior of his people, who nevertheless were shipped to the camps when the Germans liquidated the ghetto in 1944. According to one version of + Rumkowski's fate, he demanded and got a special car to transport him and his family to Auschwitz, where, to his surprise, his reign ended...
...Manila. Soon after, the army escalated its war with the N.P.A., further disrupting the local economy. Then the market where San Buenaventura sold kalamansi burned to the ground. Crossing herself, the fruit vendor offers a prayer for President Corazon Aquino. "Cory is our guiding light," she says, "our savior. She has not sinned against her fellowmen. It's only the people around her who have wronged...
...that he smoked marijuana that ended Ginsburg's high court hopes. He has nothing to be ashamed about on that count. But he was the darling of an Administration that has waged, rhetorically, at least, an hysterical war against drugs. And he was touted by arch conservatives as the savior in the war against law-breaking--and marijuana, you'll remember, still is an illegal substance. Those conservatives were the very ones who ultimately did in Ginsburg's nomination...
...national media gathers at a press conference at Oral Robert's palatial estate to witness the final money exchange. Oral publicly accepts the certified check and thanks his savior. He then leaves the conference with the cheek to "deliver the goods." In a few minutes Oral returns with a smile on his face...