Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevers, the Pope recalled the institute maintained by the same order in Venice. "They enlarged it here and enlarged it there-until finally the good sisters had to stop because Venice is on the sea and splash! they ran the risk of falling in." He concluded: "Now let us pray for you, for your families, and also for the Pope-because, to tell the truth, I want to live a long time. I like to live...
...results merely in cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. A more reasonable course for the University is to accept the Federal funds and to provide its own loan funds for students who object to the oath. There is no reason why the University can not pray for repeal with one hand while accepting the cold cash with the other...
...Roman Catholic Church's worldwide missions. The first man in that post ever to visit the Far East, Armenian Cardinal Agaganian came straight to the point in his airport press conference. Plainly referring to the 3,000,000 Chinese Catholics under Red rule, he said: "I pray that God will shower his blessings over the Chinese people-everywhere. I send them love and affection, and assure them of my continual prayers...
...property owners' objections in court, contended that the prayer violates principles set down in the ist and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. The A.C.L.U. took the case, he said, because even though the prayer is nondenominational, it is "offensive" to some parents. Orthodox Jews, he noted, customarily pray in Hebrew and with their heads covered...
Fisk differed from other robber barons in that he looked the part and played it with scandalous ebullience. Skinny, gloomy Partner Drew was a Bible banger who would retreat to his house, bar the doors and pray; but Jim Fisk was fat and jolly as a carnival pig. Part of his share of the shareholders' money was devoted to his mistress, Actress Josie Mansfield, while other spoils went to buying and renovating Pike's Opera House on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue for the company's head offices; there business mixed with pleasure in the form...