Word: rending
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Jews in Russia are willing to rend unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but they are not willing to give unto Caesar that which is God's," said Morgenthau, who is professor of Political Science at the City University of New York...
...enfant terrible; brash, controversial, a dilettantish leftist who had even visited Communist China. But gradually, he oozed his way to the core of the political establishment, promising the nation that he would deal with Quebec's blossoming separatist movement in a way that would unify Canada, not rend it apart...
...only a quarter of his arms. These thoughts prepared me for the seahorses. They were a fluttering gathering of sylphs, slowed by water, their backs fanning them along by fractions of an inch. They looked timorous and fragile, as if an unexpected particle of seaplant would, upon collision, mortally rend the ineffable curve of their minute bodies. Some glided, some rested, some seemed to fall helplessly, let us hope peacefully, upon the grains of sand, serene but bowed, dead in genuflection...