Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play with other children, and his closest companion was his parents' Negro servant, a pro boxer from Barbados. When his mother tried to strap the unruly youngster into bed for his afternoon nap, he would shout at the top of his voice, and in Portuguese: "Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation...
...power of His word to let Him use us wholly for His purposes and not our own? Are we willing to be first His children, taught by Him, then His disciples, and finally His fellow workmen in the extension of His Kingdom? . . . We do not know; we hope and pray that this will happen...
...through the third game of the memorable 1951 pennant playoff with the Giants, Campy kept ducking into the dugout toilet to pray for victory. When Bobby Thomson connected for his unbelievable, game-winning home run for the New York Giants, Campy swore at the soaring ball: "Sink, you devil, sink!" He kept muttering until the ball disappeared...
...rren, to be near the conference. From the start, West Germany had felt like a patient straining his ears while four doctors discussed his operation in the next room. As the conference opened, bells tolled all over Germany, students marched silently through cities, people gathered to pray. A Teletype connected Der Alte's mountaintop with his lieutenants in Geneva. Bulganin's statement that the unification of Germany could wait had plunged them in gloom, but that gloom had been expected. Eisenhower's statement-as it reached the public through a British briefing officer-sounded...
...gypsies, adept at mind reading, decided they liked the new chapel "because of its pure form and white color." Even Abbé Besançon confessed a change of heart: "I take back everything I said against the chapel. I think it is beautiful and believe people can pray...