Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ADDIE PRAY by Joe David Brown. 313 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Sheriff's only duty at Commencement is to reply to the Marshal's cry, "Sheriff, pray give us order," by rapping his sword three times on the platform and crying, "Let the meeting be in order." It is unclear what Buckley will use to strike the platform in lien of his sword...
...action. Senator Jacob Javits of New York had already put forth a similar bill. Some such legislation is very much in the national interest. There is no question that the President needs sweeping powers to deal with one of those 15-minute thermonuclear decisions that he, and we, pray that he will never have to face. But Viet Nam has been about as far from the midnight showdown as anything that could be invented: each major decision in the whole long, agonizing process has been studied for days, weeks, sometimes months, within the Executive Branch. There would have been plenty...
...cheap laugh. [Cheap laughter.] It is a very difficult piece of athletic apparatus, and I worked it simply because it was the only piece of apparatus that our team could afford. And if you ever saw me on the side horse, you'd come to scoff but remain to pray. [Laughter.] . . . Jesse, I have to run. I'm very busy. And I'll tell you, I have an opening across town. I'm sorry. [Hilarity...
...from Galilee. Then, in bluesy, three-quarter time, the group did The Angels Rejoiced When My Soul Made a Choice. Finally, Rex himself, clear-eyed, square-jawed and steadfastly ingenuous, came on to lighten the tempo, strumming his guitar and singing I Just Steal Away and I Pray...