Word: thees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since George Bush quietly acknowledged last month that "increased tax revenues" would be necessary to reduce the budget deficit, everyone in Washington has been running for cover. No wonder. Louisiana's legendary Russell Long once described raising taxes as a game of "don't tax me, don't tax thee, tax that fellow behind the tree...
...major factor in the problem is the fact that older alumni are the moving forces in Friends groups, and there are few older alumnae of women's sports. However, the problem still remains that thee baseball team gets its spring break trip to California paid for while members of the softball team must fork over more than $400 each to pay their way down to Texas during the same time period...
...R.S.V. goes its separate way too. Like other modern renderings from the ancient Hebrew and Greek, it systematically abandons the archaic thee and thou forms in addressing God. More important, in the words of the Rev. Bruce Metzger, the chief translator, it circumvents the "inherent bias of the English language toward the masculine gender." During the 1980s the National Council of Churches, in response to insistent feminist demands, published three sets of highly controversial rewrites of certain Bible passages. The texts referred to God as "Father ((and Mother))," inserted women's names that did not appear in the original...
RELIGION: Farewell to thee...
...would dream of tampering with the majestic music of Britain's national anthem, familiar to Americans as the tune of My Country, 'Tis of Thee. But the words are another matter, in particular the assertive second verse, which calls on the deity to scatter the monarch's enemies, in phrases much admired by Queen Victoria: "Confound their politics/ Frustrate their knavish tricks." Last month the Church of England's Liturgical Commission suggested substituting a kindlier version, written by a London shoemaker in 1836, for use when the anthem is sung at Remembrance Day services for the dead...