Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...community must seek ways to ameliorate a condition which only Armageddon can end. Knowing that the bells will not resign themselves to an ornamental quiet, we must search for the only people who know how to control them. Somewhere in Russia, where the bells were cast, there exists, we pray, a sect of monks who are the original trustees of the bells. Either the present Quasimodos of Lowell House must go to these learned men for lessons, or one of the brothers must be persuaded to leave his peaceful retreat. If the monks are made to realize that the mission...
...must not smoke, drink, eat, or indulge any other carnal appetite. Across the world of Islam from Casablanca to Djakarta, tempers are scratchy and emotions combustible. But Sultan Mohammed V moved with the kind of inner calm that is his special quality. He retired to a small room to pray, then sat down to break his fast...
During the working day it helps to pray: "Lord, fill me with enthusiasm for my product (naming it)." With nightfall comes the time to "flush negatives," to practice "mind-drainage," or (after the fashion of Author Peale himself) to "visualize 'dropping' mental impedimenta into an imaginary wastebasket...
...married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...
Another thing to pray for is to like exercise, advises Shedd, and gives readers ten exercises to like. He himself found them most effective when performed in cadence to scriptural quotations ("It will not only tune you in to God, but it will automatically teach you verses of Scripture"). Sample exercise...