Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studio audience was walking out in droves when he tuned in (cracked Hayes: "The natives get restless in the basement"). The great white hunter was undaunted. "I'm going off to shoot lions tomorrow," he signed off. "I'll call you next week. Goodbye and God bless you and give my love to everyone." Adjusting his bush-jacketful of Ban and oleomargarine, he beat back into the wilds...
...combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless Thee"). At several points in the score, instruments are invited to swing into their own improvisations, e.g., the trumpet after the passage, "Praise Him in the sound of the Trumpet...
...Bless You." There was just one other chance. Racing into the Supreme Court clerk's office, Davis grabbed a phone, put in another call to Governor Knight, who was sitting in the Hancock's flag plot room and (charged Davis later) "taking tea." Despite the fact that there were two open radiotelephone lines aboard the ship, Davis says he got a busy signal. After arguing futilely with an adamant telephone operator, Davis phoned Knight's Capitol offices for permission to break into one of the lines. At 11:12 Goody Knight came to the phone...
...former accounting student who was charged with murder after his wife found the murder victim's purse in the Abbott cellar-was led into the prison gas chamber, still quietly insisting on his innocence. After a minute, Warden Harley O. Teets shook hands with Abbott, murmured "God bless you." Replied the prisoner calmly: "Thank you." A doctor strapped the long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever, and 16 pellets...
Having faced the closeted frustrations and resentments that may lead to overeating, Shedd turns his prayer power on the French-fries and pecan pie. "Ask God to bless each bite," he urges. "I have found that whereas I used to go away hungry, when I ask him to bless each bite to his use, I leave the table deeply satisfied...