Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...including repeaters), even though news accounts of the "miracle" cloth have been spotty. On weekends the line waiting to get into the modest blue stone church stretches a block or more. Five priests are on duty to anoint people in search of healing, and every 30 minutes lay readers pray for thousands who make written requests. Four pilgrims claim to have been cured of serious maladies...
BANS ON "ILLEGAL" MEETINGS. The regime has levied heavy fines against small groups of believers who meet to talk or pray without official approval. Some people have been penalized merely for eating dinner together after church. Earlier this year one group was fined for singing Baptist hymns at home, another for being in a room with Bible verses on the wall that were deemed "contrary to the rules of decency...
...have known the last/And can appraise/Pain past," Warren writes in his poem "History." What that appraisal means for Jed is a denial of his old denials, a desire to pray and to week beside his mother's grave. And now that Jed, beside that grave, has finally found a place to come to, he discovers that he also has a place...
...soon as we get some more practice we ought to be able to do better," senior Pam Mack explained--"we've just got to get some more boat time." And maybe pray for a more favorable breeze...
...Frank Dunlop (Sherlock Holmes, Scapino) has assembled in the borough of Brooklyn the kind of radiant acting company that Robert Morley promises to U.S. tourists who fly to London. This is the nucleus of an American counterpart to the Royal Shakespeare Company or the British National Theater. Let us pray for its robust survival. T.E. Kalem