Word: supplicationes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Bogotá last week a sewer explosion sent Colombians to their knees in supplication. They thought it was The Bomb. Almost everywhere else in the hemisphere, the rumble of politics and the rattle of poker chips drowned out Bikini's blast. Democrats shouted, and dictators swung their whips...
Steve O'Neill, more confident than ever about his TNT, could go to Sunday Mass with no worldly intent to take an extra tug at his beads-in supplication for so mundane a thing as a World Series victory. Once again the Tigers were favorites, and Jolly Cholly slept...
Once more she floated by. Toscanini's birch baton stopped in midair, his left arm was raised in a gesture of supplication. Then he dropped both arms to his sides, jutted his square chin forward, lowered his head. The orchestra gave up.
We had been inspecting four Jap tanks, which were still burning. One of the tankers' crisp, upraised hands stuck out of his turret as if in supplication to a power beyond his reach.
The Rescue. Germans in lifejackets floated near. One moaned. Another, his officer's cap no longer jaunty, raised dripping hands in supplication. As the ship passed the officer, an exuberant seaman who had fought such enemies for 14 months leaned over the rail and shouted: "Ya, ya, ya, now...