Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luck anted up $500 of his own savings plus $350 from his real-estate man papa, bought a month's space on a huge (20 ft.-by-60 ft.) billboard near Times Square to make his plea public. Excerpt from Luck's open letter to Como: "I pray that you will give me the chance to meet you and maybe hear you sing one of my numbers." Easygoing Crooner Como gee-whizzed, promised to give Composer Luck's songs a hearing, maybe a warbling...
Your review of Jesuit Father John L. Thomas' book [March 26] deserves close scrutiny and high praise by Roman Catholics outside the U.S. It certainly offers a great challenge, inducing us to pray hard for them...
...Shukri el Ku-watly, Nasser and Saud sat down to survey the North African bloodshed and Levantine disorder that their intrigue and gold had helped to promote. Outside, in the Cairo streets, the mobs reckoned on only one advantage from their strengthened position: When the "summit" leaders went to pray at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Alazhar mosque, 3,000 Moslems shouted: "Israel must be annihilated...
...years Britain protected the new Arab nation, supported it, gave it an army that was the Arab world's finest. Britain educated its young King, helped maintain him on his throne as it had his grandfather before him. Now young King Hussein cried to cheering mobs: "I pray God will help us regain our stolen rights...
...firetrap list. The total was expanded to $950 at week's end by a rash of contributions from newspaper readers. That still left some $27,000 needed to pay for the job, but Dorothy Day was unperturbed. "We'll just go ahead with an architect and pray," she said...