Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gospel: "Unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." The stern-minded theologians of early Christianity, Father Dyer says, interpreted these words strictly, and consigned unbaptized babes to hell. "They are vessels of contumely and the wrath of God is upon them," wrote St. Augustine. "If no one frees them from the grasp of the devil, what wonder is it that they must suffer in flames with...
Asked to complete familiar quotations, 63% of the kids flunked Isaiah's "They shall beat their swords into plowshares," 79% flunked "Many are called, but few are chosen," 84% flunked "The truth shall make you free," 84% flunked "A soft answer turneth away wrath," 88% flunked "Pride goeth before a fall," and a full 93% flunked "The love of money is the root of all evil." Going beyond quiz questions, Warshaw found students missing the whole Biblical point of secular literature-for example, the implication of the final scene in Hemingway...
...when "all the other girls on my corridor have pierced ears?" Furthermore, some mothers are not beating, but joining, the trend. It is not surprising to hear of a mother and daughter having their ears pierced at the same time, perhaps to present a solid front against the male wrath...
...received supports as one of the U.S.'s six "basic" agricultural commodities. Nonsmoker Williams wondered "whether the tax payers should subsidize the production of this commodity, which the Surgeon General and other responsible physicians have said is harmful to the American people." Tobacco-state Senators rose in righteous wrath. Chief among them was North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, who borrowed a line from Rudyard Kipling: "And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke." Williams' amendment was voted down...
...place security orders through a bank instead of a brokerage house. Swiss investors are bound by similar customs. Result: the European customer often pays two commissions instead of one. In Germany, where banks handle securities by tradition rather than by law, Merrill Lynch is risking the banks' wrath by urging customers to deal directly with its offices. It may take a while, but U.S. companies are betting on a steady surge in European demand for U.S. stocks that will eventually force down such barriers...