Word: dungeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faith of our fathers, living still," sang a weary, anxious, deeply troubled Jimmy Carter, "in spite of dungeon, fire and sword. . ." And when it came time for the choir to respond with the eloquent verses of Psalm 130, the President sat, head bowed, in his front-row pew at the National Cathedral and listened intently to the ancient words of hope in a time of trouble: "Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord, hear my prayer...
...long wait for dawn when the 1,400 inmates of Rawalpindi District Jail began to pray. Imperceptibly at first, their murmur grew as they recited from the Koran; the time for execution was approaching. Shortly before 2 a.m., the prisoner, gaunt and ailing, was led from his dungeon death cell to the scaffolding. His hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away to a waiting air force plane and flown...
Many members of the Boston chapter play "Dungeons and Dragons," a fantasy game in which "dungeon masters control your fate using tables of probability and predetermined alternatives," Pugliese said...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Harvard hockey slipped further into mediocrity and deeper into the ECAC dungeon as Providence College dumped the Crimson, 5-3, last night here at Schneider Arena...
Walk-ons occasionally make it in Ivy League basketball, but don't count on it at Harvard with bigtime Digger Phelps-disciple Francis X. "Frank" McLaughlin moving into his second year. Harvard upset Penn at the dungeon-like IAB last year, signaling the shape of things to come. By the time the class of '82 has graduated--assuming McLaughlin stays--former doormat Harvard will have joined Penn and Princeton as Ivy powers, and maybe as a national power...