Word: blesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need prayers in our schools. If it is all right to pledge allegiance to a nation under God and sing God Bless America, why not a simple daily prayer? In starting its day, Congress asks for God's help. Surely it cannot be wrong for our children to do the same thing...
...lamenting that he had too much to do. "I don't like it," he said. "It's the least prepared I've been for anything." Japanese Entrant Yukoh Tada made preparations of a far different nature. He had a Buddhist monk come to the dockside and bless his boat...
...devise and emerges as a man worthy of having a few million bucks' worth of F-111 in his hands, not to mention a lovely bride. Gere and Winger play this nonsense as if neither one of them had ever seen an old-fashioned military romance, and bless their youthful innocence, perhaps they haven't. Director Hackford, however, surely has, since he demonstrates an encyclopedic eye for their clichés. All eagerly serve Writer Stewart's earnest desire to reduce experience (he is a Navy OCS graduate) to pulp. Never does a satirical gleam enter anyone...
...dust settle from Columbia's landing before dispatching its second ship, Challenger, to Cape Canaveral. Hitchhiking atop a specially adapted Boeing 747, the new or biter passed low over the reviewing stand at California's Edwards Air Force Base while a military band played God Bless America. Reagan likened the conclusion of the shuttle test program to the driving of the golden spike that marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad...
...Japan, when a theater is inaugurated, the stage is blessed in a religious ritual. In England, the players bless the stage by taking it. -By T.E. Kalem