Word: thee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying to avoid offending anybody, the Regents adopted this "nondenominational" compromise: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Many school boards adopted the prayer. Normally it was spoken by the class in unison at the start of each school day, with the teacher leading the recitation. In keeping with state court decisions, the Regents notified school authorities that no child could be compelled to say the prayer, and that any child had the right to be excused from the room while the prayer was being...
...biggest triumph was the voters' overwhelming rejection of orthodox Moslem extremists, who stumped for "purification" of society and repeal of such Ayub-sponsored reforms as a ban on polygamy and the traditional Moslem system of instant divorce at the husband's whim (by in toning "I divorce thee" three times...
...assembly of his Boyards [noblemen] that 'not only Bulgaria, but the Greek Empire in Europe, together with Bohemia and Hungary, ought to undergo the rule of Russia.' " Marx also quoted Derzhavin, poet laureate to Russian Empress Catherine II (1729-96): "Of what use are allies to thee, O Russian? Stride forth, and thine is the whole world...
...Walter Scott. Ignoring the squalor in the real South, they populated fictitious plantations with gorgeous women and jolly slaves. Romantic hyperbole was commonplace. Wrote Poet Sydney Lanier to his wife after 9½ years of marriage: "My heart's Heartsease, My sweet Too-sweet, if I could wrap thee in a calyx of tender words still would they seem but like the prickly husk in respect of thee, thou Rose, within." Southerners spun elaborate apologias for slavery. George Fitzhugh, a Virginia lawyer, urged in Cannibals All! and Sociology for the South the enslavement of whites as well as Negroes...
...fascinated by the adventuring spirit of man. Many of his poems are half wisdom and half whimsy, and Frost often seems to be sharing a sly, private joke with God. In fact, one couplet in In the Clearing offers God a bargain: Forgive, 0 Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great...