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...cave at the foot of Mount Hira near Mecca, where he had spent six months in solitary meditation, the vision came to Muhammad. The Angel Gabriel roused him from his bed with the stern command: "Proclaim!" Rubbing his eyes, the startled Muhammad gasped, "But what shall I proclaim?" Suddenly his throat tightened as though the angel were choking him. Again came the command: "Proclaim!" And again the terrified Muhammad felt the choking grip. "Proclaim!" ordered the angel for a third time. "Proclaim in the name of the Lord, the Creator who created man from a clot of blood! Proclaim! Your...
...race began much like the 1978 version. Radcliffe managing a good start and settling into a four-seat lead. Radcliffe cox Lizellen LaFollette kept her crew in command of the slim margin for the first third of the 1500-meter battle. The Tigers, sporting a gutsy group of racers. fought hard through the middle 500 and threatened to pull out the final leg, as they did last year...
...Taking command right from the beginning, the heavies opened the gap to the eventual winning margin during the middle 500 meters, and then staved off any Williams challenges to finish in 5:41.1, three boat lengths ahead of their opponents...
...installed such devices have been hassled by power companies for allegedly disrupting the company's systems with the extra electric current they generate. Talk about solar power is usually kept in the future tense, and actual application has not received the support that even farmers leaving fields bare could command...
...after eight months' training at Reese Air Force Base near Lubbock, Texas, and had come to show them off to his father and fellow flyer. Alas for Reza, time may now hang heavy for him too. The wings came too late for the youth who had expected to command the Iranian armed forces and some day the country...