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Word: pray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christ, which clearly and consistently manifests the true character of God as love? By His own acknowledgment, Christ came not to judge the world, but to save the world. Billy Graham and his ilk purportedly lead to Christ's saving thousands of human "souls," but let us pray that Christ (love) will eventually save the Billy Grahams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Billy Graham gave him a dime, and the Rev. Dan Potter, executive director of the New York City Protestant Council, suggested that Graham move on to another group of derelicts. "I'm going to pray that you'll find God," Graham called back. "You'll never regret it." The old man nodded, got up from the sidewalk and walked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crusade's Impact | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...saying, Edmund de Caussin went home to pray with his wife and neighbors. It was shortly thereafter, as he knelt saying his rosary, that word came. Six-year-old Mary had been found in a wooded lot a mile from home, raped, dreadfully mutilated and dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Society | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...blat feet: "More than half the commercials are filled with inanity, asininity, silliness and cheap trickery." TV's Arlene Francis burbled a defense ("We're only babies. We have to grow") after the ancient mellowed slightly and allowed that television is a "young medium, and we will pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 17, 1957 | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...Although he has played to SRO in London (twelve weeks) and in Glasgow (eight weeks) and has never laid an egg anywhere, there is some apprehension among his supporters about New York City. Praying circles all over the world will pray all night, opening night, like actors in Sardi's after a premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Billy in New York | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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