Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next three months he will awaken at 4 a.m., spend mornings begging food, afternoons in meditation. He will try to observe 228 commandments and confess each failure, no matter how small (example: inadvertently killing an insect). And when the 90 days are over, he will return to his worldly occupation -respected and, he hopes, revitalized for the daily toil in the world of appearances...
...stake in Sicily. And as the time came for Sicilians to elect a new regional assembly, Christian Democratic orators by the Fiat-ful raced about the island tirelessly echoing the warning of Italy's Premier Antonio Segni: "We must be on our guard if we are not to awaken in the bear hug of Communism...
President Pusey has recently asserted that the job of the college teacher is "to awaken in the learner the resistless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning." It is difficult to do this in a lecture course; the Faculty has wisely realized that the best opportunity for awakening such a drive is in the close, personal contact between student and tutor found in a tutorial session, where the student is forced to think perceptively. But the Faculty has been curiously lax in extending the opportunity for such thinking to the non-Honors student...
...President added that he was all for U.S. economic aid to U.S.S.R. satellites in order to set up "centrifugal as opposed to centripetal forces" and to "awaken new interest in these countries to pull away from Moscow." Both House and Senate unanimously condemned Soviet "barbarism and perfidy" in the Hungarian executions and called on free parliaments everywhere to join in denouncing them...
Order in the House. In Fort Worth, Mrs. Forest C. Barber, suing for a divorce, charged that her physician husband set up a written system of household rules, imposing fines on her of $5 if she failed to awaken him in the morning, $2 for not having coffee ready on time (and $5 for complaining), $5 for failing to cook supper any day except Sunday, $2 for not cooking it well, $5 for complaining about having to cook, $5 for not having their child in bed and the TV set off by 9:30 p.m., $50 for tirades...