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...Shakespeare used it in Coriolanus when he had the tribune Sicinius ask, "Where is this viper/ That would depopulate the city?" John Milton's History of England referred to military forces "depopulating all places in their way," and Shelley wrote in Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills of "thine isles depopulate...
Operating on the common wisdom that pro-choice groups should "know thine enemy," Boston journalist Connie Paige has written The right to Lifers, an exhaustive and occasionally exhausting account of the anti-abortion movement, Paige describes the movement at its peak, a blatant, sensationalistic drive for power. For example, "Stop the Baby killers" was a political front organization to channel money to pro-life congressional candidates in 1980. Asked about the group's name, an organizer stated, "Frankly, that was brutal, But we had to get attention or we would have lost our money...
...dreamers' choice in the Derby was Cassaleria, a one-eyed colt with claustrophobia, the solitary member of the "20/20 Stable" (slogan: "Thine eye has seen the glory"). Cassaleria is another star-crossed son of Pretense, the father of poor Sham, who would have won any other Kentucky Derby and most other Preaknesses but finished second to Secretariat on both occasions in 1973. One of Cassaleria's first bobbling steps after birth tumbled him into a fence post and poked out his left eye, leaving a sorry-looking fleshed-over socket...
...With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt," says Leviticus 2:13. Because of its use as a preservative, salt became a token of permanence to the Jews of the Old Testament. Its use in Hebrew sacrifices as a meat purifier came to signify the eternal covenant between God and Israel. In one biblical case, salt symbolized a lack of fidelity. In Genesis 19:1-29, two angels of the Lord command Lot, his wife and two daughters to flee the sinful city of Sodom without ever looking back. When Lot's wife cast a fleeting glance backward...
...thine infamy turn not away. Vada Hill Lydia Jackson Teresa Hord Hope Lewis