Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unto you, that ye love one another. It seems to me that they are a little misplac'd, and that the last should have been the first. However, I never made any Difficulty about that, but was always willing to obey them both whenever I had an Opportunity. Pray tell me, my dear Casuist, whether my keeping religiously these two Commandments, may not be accepted in Compensation for my breaking so often one of the Ten, I mean that which forbids Coveting my Neighbor's Wife...
According to a contemporary account, "Then arose Asa the scribe, and went unto Belcher, the ruler, and said behold our Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us, we pray thee, Butter that stinketh not..." However phrased in fact, this request was turned down. A strike followed and the undergraduate body deserted Hollis Hall, the commons, almost entirely...
...think of him as an ascetic-looking, hollow-cheeked, dark-skinned Yemenite or ringleted old Jew straight out of a Polish ghetto. The Ingathering of the Exiles crammed the new republic with people from 70 lands, without mutual understanding, unable to speak to each other, refusing often to pray together. Half the population is now composed of Oriental Jews, many of them near-primitive savages from darkest Arabia who had never sat down to a table...
Inviting the heads of Israel's Christian churches and communities to a New Year's tea, sad-faced old President Itzhak ben-Zvi of Israel begged his guests to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." The peace of Jerusalem-and the Middle East -was standing in the need of prayer last week...
...conflict between Communism and freedom is the problem of our time. It overshadows all other problems. This conflict mirrors our age, its toils, its tensions, its troubles and its tasks. On the outcome of this conflict depends the future of all mankind. I pray that, on the threshold of the atomic age, we of the free world can muster the moral courage and total strength to preserve peace and promote the freedom of the men and women of every continent, color and creed...