Word: blessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry the full load of teacher salaries and keep open the schools, which now have 120,000 black pupils. From Rome came the Pope's personal support: "I pray for the success of the Catholic bishops' campaign, and with all my heart I bless all those who will pray, work and give for the mission schools and seminaries in South Africa...
Light of the World} featured a stumbling, skid-row drunk transformed by an angel into a white-robed candidate for the heavenly host. During the fourth ( Christ Died for Every Nation}, the choir marched in waving American flags, sang God Bless America, later broke into a jazzy hymn called V is for Victory while they waved flags of all nations...
...prefer not to call themselves Protestants at all. At Northfield the delegates considered a motion recommending that "Protestant" be dropped from the title of the Protestant Episcopal Church. But the Young Churchmen voted it down, 172 to 127, expressed their position in a song (to the tune of God Bless America...
With Carmine, Marietta was in labor for six days. During that time, Avellinans camped anxiously and uproariously in the De Sapio apartment. Says Marietta: "When my Carmine came, God bless 'im, it was like I had a king born. Altogether, the people stayed in the house nine days-maybe 30 of them. I was very sick, but I had no time to think about it. We ate and sang and had a big party all the time. Carmine was a king...
...bless you, Gino!" cried Master of Ceremonies Hal March. Millions (estimated viewers: 47,560,000) sighed with relief. The tidings were reported in newspapers across the U.S., even in Europe...