Word: smiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never again will hurricanes smite without warning, after building up their strength unnoticed in the open sea. Every storm that moves upon the face of the globe is now watched by meteorological satellites, to which thousands already owe their lives...
...supposed to make her appear as if she were wearing no makeup at all. Then, in the evening, she can switch to smoky mauve eye shadow and dark red lipstick touched with midnight blue, calculated to give her a mysterious aura that will stand out under disco lights and smite her dancing partners with an advanced case of Saturday Night Fever...
...patriotism." But, Reagan charged, "Gerald Ford . . . has shown neither the vision nor the leadership necessary to halt and reverse the diplomatic and military decline of the U.S." A reporter asked Reagan if he were violating his promise to abide by the G.O.P.'s "Eleventh Commandment" -thou shalt not smite thy fellow Republican. No, Reagan replied lamely, he was not hitting Ford personally, only his Administration's policies...
Strength and Spirit. Sometimes the results smite the eye and exalt the spirit. Majesty and strength shine in St. John's Abbey and University of Collegeville, Minn. The project's bell tower, a mighty raised slab of raw concrete, is among the best pieces of sculptural architecture this side of Le Corbusier's Ronchamp church. Manhattan's Whitney Museum, with upper gallery floors expressed in three cantilevers that extend further and further out from the building, has heft, urbanity and presence. But sometimes the effect is of too much strength, as in a muscle-bound cantilevered...
SATANISM. "Blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth. If a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!" This inverted gospel ?from Anton Szandor La Vey's The Satanic Bible?sets the tone for today's leading brand of Satanism, the San Francisco-based Church of Satan. Founded in 1966 by La Vey, a former circus animal trainer, the Church of Satan offers a mirror image of most of the beliefs and ethics of traditional Christianity...