Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mamarchev is correct. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, called a snegir, has always been a Russian favorite. In ancient days snegiri, and other birds, were released from their cages as a sign of spring. Orthodox Russians, continuing the tradition, believe that each bird freed on Annunciation Day (April 7) atones for one sin. Tradition dies hard, and even now in the Soviet Union, birds are set free on that...
...asked that the campaign of 1962 not repeat the experience of 1960 where "the only issue is who is less dishonest than the other." He stated that both parties were against corruption, and called for everyone to "assume that all candidates are against sin; let us campaign on issues...
...before a gutted house. The talk shimmers with movement and tension: we watch the house become alive with terrible memories. The peddlar has killed his own father in this very house, and a family cannot purge itself of a crime its blood passes on. Each generation reenacts a family sin until the last measure of evil is payed out. Having killed his father, the peddlar now kills his son, perhaps to set his mother's ghost to rest. David Gullette is the peddlar, the ruined and driven old murderer: his is a sly and yet dignified performance. And Harry Smith...
...fever and flames of controversy upon every firmament at this good hour ... I will not charge my conscience with any act or deed which would contribute to the foundering of the United Nations, because I do not know how I would then be able to expiate that sin of commission to my grandchildren." The lopsided Senate vote improves the prospects for the measure in the House...
...Calvin's influence on John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, made him an architect of the Kirk's bulwark against the papacy. In 1647, Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly wed their church to a Confession of Faith that described the Pope as "AntiChrist, man of sin, son of perdition." The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1960 visit to Pope John tested the ground for all Protestantism, and last May a resolution was put before the Kirk's General Assembly that the Moderator-"when in Rome"-should call on the Pope...