Word: ye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peccant Peck Sir: Apropos of the Catholic "venial kiss" discussion | Oct. 8]: one imagines countless exchanges like this on Irish lanes: "Gi! Said a me lad a to a venial lass, kiss." "To Hell wi' ye, son. I kiss mortal, like this...
...damn thing!" Finally, after weeks of trying unsuccessfully to get the crabs to dress themselves up like sponges, he and the group gave up and turned on the lights. "And as soon as we turned on the lights... it was as if the crabs had screamed, 'Ye Gods, we're naked,' "They dived for the sponges...
From behind the closed door boomed the director's voice, and occasionally the uncertain voice of a young actor could be heard reciting Hamlet's lines--"Oh all ye host of heaven! Oh earth! What else...
Church officials tried hard to muffle political realities. "Be ye reconciled to God" (II Corinthians 5: 20) was the official theme, and Pastor Martin Niemoeller opened the Kirchentag with a sermon that steered clear of secular applications. But in a Germany that is bifurcated geographically, politically and ideologically, the word reconciliation had overtones. One was "reunification"; another the question of conciliation between the Christians in East Germany and the Communist state; another the conflict, in the Evangelical Church itself, between the pro-West faction and neutralists...
...John Bull's Other Island, Irishman Bernard Shaw developed the notion that the sentimental "top-o'-the-mornin'-to-ye" Irish character was an English invention designed to prove that the Irish were incapable of looking after themselves. Ever since, without exactly conceding Shaw's point, or, for that matter, calling the man a liar, Irish writers have been adapting and improving the original invention...