Word: thees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beseech thee to protect with thy sustaining presence those who venture to explore the heavens." At civic ceremonies, invocations are somewhat shorter and simpler than in the past-and may even on occasion live up to the standards of frankness set by the Right Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Episcopal Bishop of Boston, who suggests that his priests say: "God forgive the graft that went into this building." Despite the Supreme Court decision, many schools opened this fall with some form of prayer. In San Francisco, the midmorning snack for kindergarten, first-and second-grade children is invariably preceded...
...second problem is the choice of mosquito control methods. Like most U.S. cities, St. Petersburg has been doused to a fare-thee-well with DDT, but some mosquitoes survived and multiplied. Spraying kills adult insects but usually not their eggs. The only way to get completely rid of them is to destroy their breeding places. Finally, the city authorities are trying to do just that by cleaning up yards and empty lots, getting rid of old tin cans, coconut husks and automobile tires, and everything else capable of holding stagnant water...
Driver and his team are ruthlessly pruning archaisms from their translation: saith and doth are out; thee and thou are not used, except when God is addressed. Lord (in capital letters) will be used in place of Jehovah-a philologically meaningless attempt to render the sacred Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH. The translators are also trying to weed out what Driver calls "nonsense" caused by faulty reading of the manuscripts. In Psalm 2, for example, "Tremble before him and kiss his feet in homage" will replace a serious misinterpretation in the King James Version: "Rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest...
Died. Victor Moore, 86, chubby, puckish actor, whose best-remembered role was Alexander Throttlebottom, the quavering-voiced ineffectual U.S. Vice President in George Gershwin's 1931 musical Of Thee I Sing; of a heart attack; in East Islip...
...thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly...