Word: turneth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside the Hilton's Grand Ballroom, however, a black-tie crowd of 1,000 heard from Reagan only the soft answers that proverbially turneth away wrath. He paid tribute to a list of Democratic and liberal heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. He presented himself as the protector of F.D.R.'s welfare state. Said Reagan: "I'm accused by some of trying to destroy Government's commitment to compassion and the needy. Does this bother me? Yes. I'm doing everything I can . . . to slow the destructive growth in taxes and spending...
...which are considered unacceptable by many experts. The results can be bewildering. In the opening of the Song of Solomon, the bride wishes to find her love so that "I may not be left picking lice." In the King James she asks, "Why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?" American audiences sometimes quibble at word choices (felloe, stook, distrain) and find the Englishness of the text disconcerting. For example, St. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 16: 8, "I shall remain at Ephesus until Whitsuntide...