Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House lately has forbidden use of the term, perhaps because it sounds too sporting for a serious business. Some economists crack that the game plan is "punt, pray, and hope for a fumble...
...late for a phased withdrawal. The smog was like Mace; but then the air, apart from radioisotopes, must be better anywhere else now, even in a coal mine. A major earthquake was predicted, too, not merely by seismologists but by the religious protection rackets, which were transferring east to pray out the millennium and to await the second option of chiliasm there . . . At about that time, as well, the American Legion opened its campaign against my San Diego neighbor Professor Marcuse, an action I read as a warning to keep my peace about the war or risk being dealt with...
...wish you luck and pray that we may all be united at this terrible but hopeful moment...
What happened is hard to describe. It's hard to describe the way it feels to pray on a beach with people who share your conviction that the Ultimate Truth of the universe is listening and can respond. And it's hard to describe what it's like to play fast volleyball when you've just been praying with the other team...
...ladder, boasting the two top players in the EITA in senior Bobby Goeltz and sophomore Bill Colson, and have quite impressive depth. Harvard's only chance of a victory, it appears, lies in its ability to sweep the matches low on the ladder, take the second doubles contest, and pray for either rain or darkness to move the matches inside, where the tricky, somewhat harder clay courts should work to the Crimson's advantage...