Word: shepherding
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...Pope will visit Fatima in Portugal to beatify two shepherd children to whom the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared there in 1917. For John Paul, the visit will have a mystical significance: his personal motto is Totus tuus (All yours--giving himself to Mary). When he survived the 1981 assassination attempt by Mehmet Ali Agca, the Pope noted that the attack occurred on the anniversary of the Fatima apparition, and he credited his survival to intercession by the Blessed Virgin...
...stresses per line, separated in the middle by a strong pause, or caesura, with the third stress in each line alliterating with one or both of the first two. Heaney follows these rules to the letter in such lines as "No one could miss their murderous feuding" or "The shepherd of people was sheared of his life." But he also regularly works supple variations on this pattern, letting the Anglo-Saxon rhythms echo as an undercurrent in lines that would seem, in another context, almost prosaic: "She turned then to the bench where her boys...
...writer is the vicar at the Church of the Good Shepherd...
Marbury Madison--the ears-akimbo German shepherd-Rhodesian Ridgeback mix who came from the pound--looks, frankly, like a neurotic mess. He glances cringingly at a stranger and slinks away behind the 26-month-old twins. By contrast, the twins, Christopher and Siena, toddle toward a downstairs playroom with the focused, menacing energy of a tornado aimed at an Alabama trailer camp. It is left to the lovely Alice, a tortoiseshell cat, to perform ceremonies of greeting and accept a scratch behind the ears...
...Doug Shepherd added an empty net goal at 19:26 to give the Engineers its margin of victory...