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Word For The Day, Thursday, March 23, 2006 - succor
dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | March 23, 2006 | secret garden

Posted on 03/23/2006 5:22:18 AM PST by secret garden



In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

succor \SUH-kuhr\, noun:
1. Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
2. The person or thing that brings relief.
transitive verb:
1. To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve.

Example sentence:
There was some talk about the perils of the sea, and a landsman delivered himself of the customary nonsense about the poor mariner wandering in far oceans, tempest-tossed, pursued by dangers, every storm blast and thunderbolt in the home skies moving the friends by snug firesides to compassion for that poor mariner, and prayers for his succor.
-- Mark Twain, "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion," The Atlantic, November 1877

Etymology: Succor derives from Latin succurrere, "to run under, to run or hasten to the aid or assistance of someone," from sub-, "under" + currere, "to run."

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....


Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

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To: xsmommy; Cyber Liberty

No, no, no. He'll love it. His mom told me. He never knew. Maybe in casual conversation. I checked it out. Yep, relative.


41 posted on 03/23/2006 5:52:09 AM PST by Slip18
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To: xsmommy
what were the words....? : )

Yeah, sure. I appreciate my posting privileges here.

42 posted on 03/23/2006 5:52:21 AM PST by Toby06 (Jail employers of illegal immigrants.)
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To: secret garden

Sorrow changed to solace, solace mix'd with sorrow;
For why, she sigh'd and bade me come tomorrow.

Were I with her, the night would post too soon;
But now are minutes added to the hours;
To spite me now, each minute seems a moon;
Yet not for me, shine sun to succor flowers!

(more shakespeare)


43 posted on 03/23/2006 5:52:22 AM PST by Dutchgirl (.Jeg er en dansker (I am a Dane.))
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To: Toby06

i can't even right click the properties, there is nothing there. they are cagey here....


44 posted on 03/23/2006 5:52:41 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Another horny bimbo teacher alert
45 posted on 03/23/2006 5:53:45 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: xsmommy

http://www.avatarcash.com/fhg/jana/rwbpop/image01.jpg


46 posted on 03/23/2006 5:55:16 AM PST by Toby06 (Jail employers of illegal immigrants.)
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To: secret garden
FYI: Where

In 1727, French Ursuline nuns founded a monastery in New Orleans, Louisiana, and organized their area schools from it. In 1763 Louisiana became a Spanish possession, and Spanish sisters came to assist. In 1800 the territory reverted back to France, and the Spanish sisters fled in the face of France anti-Catholicsm. In 1803, short on teachers, Mother Saint Andre Madier requested reinforcements in the form of more sisters from France. The relative to whom she write, Mother Saint Michel, was running a Catholic boarding school for girls. Bishop Fournier, short-handed due to the repressions of the French Revolution, declined to send any sisters. Mother Saint Michel was given permission to appeal to the pope. The pope was a prisoner of Napoleon, and it seemed unlikely he would even receive her letter of petition. Mother Saint Michel prayed,

O most Holy Virgin Mary, if you obtain for me a prompt and favorable answer to this letter, I promise to have you honored at New Orleans under the title of Our Lady of Prompt Succor.

and sent her letter on 19 March 1809. Against all odds, she received a response on 29 April 1809. The pope granted her request, and Mother Saint Michel, commissioned a statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor holding the Infant Jesus. Bishop Fournier blessed the statue and Mother's work.

Mother Saint Michel and several postulants came to New Orleans on 31 December 1810. They brought the statue with them, and placed it in the monastery chapel. Since then, Our Lady of Prompt Succor has interceded for those who have sought her help.

A great fire threatened the Ursuline monastery in 1812. A lay sister brought the statue to the window and Mother Saint Michel prayed

Our Lady of Prompt Succor, we are lost if you do not come to our aid.

The wind changed direction, turned the fire away, and saved the monastery.

Our Lady interceded again at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Many faithful, including wives and daughters of American soldiers, gathered in the Ursuline chapel before the statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, and spent the night before the battle in prayer. They asked Our Lady for victory by Andrew Jackson’s forces over the British, which would save the city from being sacked. Jackson and 200 men from around the South won a remarkable victory over a superior British force in a battle that lasted twenty-five minutes, and saw few American casualties.
47 posted on 03/23/2006 5:55:41 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: VRWCmember

how did that friend not stand up, scream at the top of her lungs "ARE YOU INSANE?????"


48 posted on 03/23/2006 5:56:00 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember
Looks like fergie

NOT the one from Black Eyed Peas

49 posted on 03/23/2006 5:56:28 AM PST by Toby06 (Jail employers of illegal immigrants.)
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To: Toby06

eyes are too close together....


50 posted on 03/23/2006 6:00:19 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; Slip18
Perhaps that explains why, wherever Cyber goes, the circus is always there, too.

No, wait. Maybe that's just Slippy's traveling burlesque show....

51 posted on 03/23/2006 6:06:46 AM PST by TheGrimReaper (Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.)
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To: xsmommy
hillary is now claiming that the reports she is muzzling bill are not true: Hillary Clinton: I'm Not Muzzling Bill
52 posted on 03/23/2006 6:06:47 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: secret garden

1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!


53 posted on 03/23/2006 6:08:02 AM PST by Gabz (Smokers are the beta version)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Our Lady may be the patroness of Louisiana and New Orleans, but it's ol' Ray Nagin who continues to sucker succor from the various agencies in an attempt to boost his bid for re-election in N.O.


54 posted on 03/23/2006 6:09:04 AM PST by mikrofon (Mayor Ray - a bad sucker)
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To: VRWCmember

Well, both of them have been on all sides of the Dubai port deal...but who cares?


55 posted on 03/23/2006 6:09:25 AM PST by TheGrimReaper (Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.)
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To: Gabz

First what?


56 posted on 03/23/2006 6:10:04 AM PST by TheGrimReaper (Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.)
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To: VRWCmember

Yikes! I think they shoot sexual predators in Texas... ;^)


57 posted on 03/23/2006 6:10:54 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Unless the victim really liked it.


58 posted on 03/23/2006 6:14:13 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember

she using a ball-gag on him?


59 posted on 03/23/2006 6:14:31 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; Slip18; RikaStrom; tioga; Argh; xsmommy; All
Like a balm for my soul
your smile and voice
are the succor of relief
and hope
as the daffodil's yellow face
cheers a cold Spring day.

bentfeather (c)
03.23.06

60 posted on 03/23/2006 6:14:32 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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