Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the Italo-Papal treaty had not yet been ratified, His Holiness had positively announced before entering St. Peter's that he would not appear upon the balcony to bless the kneelers. However 200,000 Italians shouting "Il Papa! Il Papa!" in the rain are a powerful inducement, especially when they keep it up for four solid hours. Relenting at last, the vicar of Christ briefly appeared and adequately blessed the sopping flock, but he did not impart the especially potent blessing "Urbi et Orbi!" ("to the city and to the world...
...wish I were with you, baby, because I love you. God bless you. Dolores." "Darling, you must get well because of my love for you. Dolores." "I love you. Dolores...
They knew that the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-O-Mikami, was arriving with all the 123 dead Emperors of Japan, her lineal descendants, to witness and to bless the coronation of the present Emperor, the Sublime Tenno Hirohito...
After all, there aren't as many riots as there used to be, and the police record is slimmer than it was. Probably Dogberry would be the first to bless that occasional political phenomenon that lifts so many to their hind legs for one good howl...
...bless the intuition which led us to intervention in the War. We bless the blood generously shed by the 700 battalions of fallen. We bless our scars, the pain of which is now eased by a great radiant hope...