Word: kneeling
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...broiling Barcelona day last week 30,000 children marshaled by hundreds of priests gathered for an open air prayer festival at which it is a local custom to pray masked. Many and many a child sneaked off the sweltering mask during the long prayer, but all remained devoutly motionless kneeling under a grilling sun. When the prayer ended 28,000 tots rose and prepared to march away but 2,000 continued to kneel as though stupefied or paralyzed in the attitude of adoration. Doctors pronounced them sunstruck. Several hundred had to be rushed to hospitals, all were expected to recover...
...distressed by a sacrilege which had been perpetrated in the Holy City itself; but the Papal newspaper Osservatore Romano rejoicing to announce that a portion of God's work is being done even by the Bolsheviks, because they, by their infamies, have brought Protestants and Jews to kneel in prayer for a petition initiated by the Pope...
...kneel down in front of me," commanded Statesman Stimson, at the same time bringing a camera into focus. "Kneel down, and while you take a picture of me I shall take a picture of you in that position...
...fellows to listen no more to scientific iniquities, to follow him. To Lecturer Day he said: "I hope God will bless you and show you your mistake. You do not realize the thorns you are planting." Then he led his fellow divinity students away to their building, to kneel and pray for one hour for Howard College...
...Please do not kneel. Please, please, PLEASE, lady, don't kneel there! Touch the stone and pass along. That's all that is necessary. Pray in the chapel. Move along, now. Move along...