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  • A Testing Period Recalling Ordeals of the Dawn-Breakers

    Citadel of Faith 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • Ordeals seem to reflect everything that was wrong with the Dark Ages.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Trial By Ordeal 2010

  • When Jason passed his Ordeals and became a Master in his own right, Ridgeway was as proud of his accomplishment as he had any right to expect.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • I don't think she's stupid enough to do anything that would get her in real trouble; the only question would be if she could pass her Ordeals, and that would be out of my hands if she was an Apprentice in Fire rather than Air.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • The discipline is the same, only the spells and Ordeals differ.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Now a great many things she had read in other books began to make sense-including the Ordeals.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • In his 2002 article “The Medical Ordeals of JFK,” Robert Dallek showed how this particular lie was in fact just one small part of a careful orchestration of additional lies, strategic omissions, and misrepresentations.

    White House Whoppers 2007

  • Ordeals have as their primary purpose to test a person's will, but are not undertaken to break a person's will.

    The Spirit Upwelling Linda Boroff 2009

  • In his 2002 article “The Medical Ordeals of JFK,” Robert Dallek showed how this particular lie was in fact just one small part of a careful orchestration of additional lies, strategic omissions, and misrepresentations.

    White House Whoppers 2007

  • Presidential historian Robert Dallek, the author of "The Medical Ordeals of JFK" (December Atlantic), discusses new revelations about President

    Presidential Ailments 2005

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