Word: fulfillment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tyrant-one who believes that he has sacrificed his whole life to his family and never misses a chance to remind them of the fact. He has married his wife, Charlotte, for her money, "hoping to serve his impoverished estate, and she had married him for love, hoping to fulfil herself. The love had gone and the money remained, so that the advantage lay with Horace, if he could have taken so hopeful a view of his life." Also dependent on Horace's so-called bounty are his weak-willed, affectionate cousin Mortimer (who is in love with Charlotte...
...bedside carpet is important and must be gratifying to the bare feet. Persians, Kermans and Kashans lack the necessary thickness of pile. A subdued Shiraz would fulfil most people's requirements, though leptoforms [delicate people] may require something with a more stimulating pattern, say a Tabriz...
...wearied with labors for God's sake." Prayer should be brief "and with purity of heart, except it be perchance prolonged by the inspiration of divine grace." The whole Psalter must be recited each week, "for we read that our holy Fathers were strenuous enough to fulfil in a single day this task which I pray that we lukewarm folk may complete in the whole week." St. Benedict does not demand strict fasting but recommends that food and drink be cut to a healthy minimum...
...Security. "No man will have to fear the wreck of his home life and the destruction of his power to fulfil his family responsibilities through changes of employment quite beyond his own prevision or control...