Word: pray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public testimony of the saved, no mourners' bench nor sawdust trail, no Bible-banging nor marimba band. The middle-aged women and young people who came to hear Evangelist Green merely rose to their feet at the proper times or hunched forward in their cane-bottomed seats to pray. But when the week-long mission closed on Sunday night, Bryan Green's audiences had totaled approximately 42,000-an average of about 6,000 a night. Such crowds carried an obvious inference: modern congregations might be ready for some good old-fashioned preaching from the pulpit...
...weeks, tension mounted and rumors grew. Venezuelans began to pray that handsome, tuberculous Lieut. Colonel Mario Vargas would return from his Saranac Lake, N.Y. sickbed. The army liked Vargas. He was also a close friend of both Gallegos and Betancourt. Vargas, people said, would straighten things...
Concluded the bishops: "On this basically, religious [U.S.] tradition . . . secularism has [increasingly] exercised a corrosive influence . . . If this secularist influence is to prevail . . . such a result should ... be achieved by legislation . . . and not by the judicial procedure of an ideological interpretation of our Constitution. We therefore hope and pray that the [present interpretation] will in due process be revised...
...pigskin spheroid, it's hard to tell which way the ball will bounce. And when that spheroid is not even round, the variables are unlimited." All he can do as a coach, he feels, is get his 11 men in a better position to chase the ball--and then pray it isn't jinxed. A mortal can do no more...
...home it must be different. Nelson's two cocker spaniels, Flash and Gooky, will block and tackle for dog biscuits. "And when you ask them what they do on Saturdays," Davey admits craftily, "They stand on their hind legs and pray...