Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakfast" (scrambled eggs, pork chops, coffee), later leaned casually on a rail, notebook in hand, as Williams entered the execution chamber. But another reporter noted that Reid pursed his lips as Williams took the first 15-second 1,800-volt jolt. The reporter later asked Methodist Reid, "Were you praying then?'' Answered Reid: "I always pray...
...cults seek to bring on the new by destroying the old; they deliberately violate the ancient taboos of their people, kill their livestock, stop cultivating their fields. "Sometimes they spend days sitting gazing at the horizon for a glimpse of the long-awaited ship or airplane; sometimes they dance, pray and sing in mass congregations, becoming possessed and 'speaking with tongues...
...left five years ago," he said last week in his still Manhattan-tinted accent as he puffed a Dunhill cigarette. But he saw nothing odd about an American occupying a bastion of Britain. Said Anglican Simpson: "The United States Government doesn't seem to mind if I pray for Queen Elizabeth...
Even if he failed as a recruiter, Terry Dene could take comfort that somebody still wanted to recruit him. At St. George's Church, in London's working-class Camberwell district, Anglican Father Geoffrey Beaumont followed prayers for a new bishop with another: "Let us pray for Terry Dene, a young man who has been very ill." Father Beaumont, already mildly celebrated for his use of jazz during sacred services (TIME, April 1, 1957), explained: "Terry Dene represents the sort of thing I want to bring into my church...
...witted old peasant woman (Annie Rosar), who works as a cook in a wealthy Austrian family, saves all her pennies to educate her nephew (Kurt Meisel) for the priesthood. Actually the cook does not care a fig for the nephew. All she wants is a priest who will pray for her soul and make sure she gets to heaven...