Word: blessedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I feel very blessed by the guidance provided by my home and church life," Winfrey says.
"It, as much as anything else, is a function of who you work for, so that at the end of the day, you feel good about what you've done," she says, "and I've been extraordinarily blessed with Bob Dole and now Joe Nye, [the dean of the Kennedy...
That, to me, is where the real oppression lies. The oppression that comes with having to continuously exhaust your energies making peace with your self and your black self. It is a phenomenon W. E. B. DuBois has termed "the dilemma of double-consciousness." White people have the privilege of...
Cross-country-skiing coaches dream of athletes like Philip Boit, 26, who is blessed with a long stride, a powerful upper body, endurance and stamina. One problem: Boit, a Kenyan middle-distance runner, had never seen snow until 1996, when he was recruited by Nike to test the proposition that...
Bono never aimed for poetry in his songs (nor, of course, was he blessed with good pipes), but he came to occupy an important place in the history of rock regardless. "He helped usher the genre from '50s-'60s pop to the folk-rock era of the later '60s," notes...