Word: pray
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Roses. Last week, in the red-and-gold pendopo (pavilion) of the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Soekarno formally took his oath of office on the Koran (which according to Moslem custom was held against the back of his head). "Brothers, brothers," he cried in his inaugural address, "I pray for strength. Our task now is to fill that vacuum called freedom . . . Now we must heal the wounds and wipe off the blood...
Even the Democrats showed certain spurious concern for the plight of the Grand Old Party. Said National Chairman Bill Boyle: "I earnestly pray that these failures will persuade the Republican Party that it must develop a program of its own if it wishes to preserve not only its own political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...
...people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University going. Then Harvard bows, pushes a $10,000 chair under our bottom and says, "Pray, make yourself comfortable...
...steady rain was falling when Castro awoke in Panajachel the next morning, and he decided to stay on another day. Twenty-four hours later there was still no letup, and streams on either side of Panajachel were swollen. Castro went to church to pray that the rains might stop. All that night torrents fell, and Castro trembled with fear that his cornpatch might be washed into the lake or buried by landslides from the mountains. Next morning he joined the village elders as they dressed an image of San Francisco in a raincoat and paraded it down the street while...
When the U.S. Senate began a new legislative day one afternoon last week, it found it was without a chaplain to begin with prayer. For the first time in congressional memory the Vice President took over the duty. Said Alben Barkley: "I can pray. That's every man's prerogative...