Word: seraphically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself to me." De spite his interest in the neighbor's piano, the Bernsteins never had a musical instrument in the house until Lennie was ten. Then they were saddled with a "brown upright horror" that Aunt Clara wanted to get rid of. To Lennie it sounded like a seraph's harp. His reluctant parents ? who really hoped he might go into the beauty- parlor-supply business ? allowed him to have piano lessons...
...order who function as messengers of the Kingdom of Heaven. In Isaiah's vision they had three sets of wings, the better to aid them in their flights through space and eternity. and they traveled with the speed of light. On earth last week, a sort of human seraph was buzzing around the planet at a fabulous rate for a messenger tied to mere aircraft. In less than a fortnight he had: munched mangoes in Manila with President Magsaysay; lunched in London with Winston Churchill: held high-level sessions with Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei and Konrad Adenauer...
...morning of April 30, the submarine Seraph, Lieut. N. A. Jewell commanding, surfaced about a mile off the estuary of the Huelva River. Out of his canister came Major Martin. The officers on deck bowed their heads as Lieut. Jewell spoke the words of the burial service, then Martin was gently pushed into the water and was picked up by the ingoing tide...