Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pray for the prolongation of these subscriptions, hoping that in the nearer or farther future we shall be able to pay for them. We can't imagine our life without this 'golden thread' which for us is the reading of TIME and LIFE...
...campaigning from Senator Claude Pepper. Running against the master (TIME, April 3), he showed that he had learned how to pour salt in Pepper's old wounds. Fishing out an old newspaper clipping at every campaign stop, Smathers read Pepper's reported 1946 advice to the U.S.: pray for Joseph Stalin because he is; the kind of man Americans could trust...
...pray for Joe Stalin today?" Smathers would ask his audiences, and the angry "noes" sounded like votes. Pepper in turn called attention to Smathers' birthplace in Atlantic City, N.J., denounced him as a damyankee intruder. To which Smathers would answer that he himself was a University of Florida graduate, while Pepper deserted his native state to go north to Harvard. "Felix Frankfurter had nothing to do with my education," boomed Smathers. "Alger Hiss is no classmate of mine. I don't travel under the Crimson banner of Harvard...
...minor landmark in church history. Last week the Roman Catholic Church issued a new and explicit clarification of the conditions under which Catholics may be permitted to discuss religion and even pray with their Protestant brethren...
...felt among the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church. We can only rejoice that such is the case." But he noted with regret that the directive "remains below the level reached by certain members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy . . . Christians outside the Roman communion should continue to pray that the Roman Catholic Church may be led to a wider and deeper conception of Christian unity...