Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church members do not have enough to eat. Black ministers around here are usually quite well-off, in marked contrast to those who contribute each Sunday toward paying their salaries. The church in this county is holding the people back. It is basically a conservative political force. Pray instead of getting out and working in the elections. The church here is an opiate...
...pray that we will have learned by 1972 not to again be misled by the fascist law-and-order advocates. Our problems are more fundamental than a mere lack of law-and-order. We need a President who can understand and reconcile grievances, not one who exploits them...
...Pray to Allah. There were suggestions that the relief operation was delayed by indifference to the fate of East Pakistanis among government officials in the capital, Islamabad, which is situated far away in the western part of the segmented nation. Bureaucratic truculence also helped. The government insisted for several days that helicopters offered by the U.S., Britain and other nations be flown by Pakistani pilots. West Germany's offer of a fully manned 150-bed field hospital simply went unanswered; the Pakistanis later explained lamely that they would have been unable to feed the German doctors and nurses. Ordinary...
...past, many islanders have dreamed of building sea walls, but such vast undertakings have always been put aside as impracticable. "We can control the flood," said Pakistan's President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan last week, "but what can we do against the cyclone? We can only pray to Allah for mercy...
...that the elections are over, we are sure that each of the Princeton supporters of successful candidates will celebrate his success with an appropriate victory celebration. (Play "Some Enchanted Eyening.") (Two guns, and pray that Mrs. Inept doesn't understand a word...