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Word: pray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...puck they leave behind. With Denis Potvin, the only defenseman other than Bobby Orr to notch two 30-goal seasons, bringing up the rear, an Islanders' onslaught can be awesome. According to Chicago Black Hawk Center Stan Mikita, there is but one good defense: "You just pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey's Power Players | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...rather not hear from one of his top economic advisors. The next morning, Carter summarily dismissed the remark as "idle talk," but the inflation fighter was to be heard from again. On a T.V. news interview he captured the Administration's it-will-all-work-out-if-we-just-pray-hard-enough attitude when, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, he said that in the future he would say the word banana as soon as that wicked word depression overcame...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Blind Faith | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

...appeal to simple human virtue. They are sadly convinced that they can serve the institution only by taking on its values and beliefs, and that there is no room for humanitarianism, other than that defined by the narrow limits of their bureaucracy. The optimistic man or woman must pray that they are wrong...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

Oglah Smadi, 31, a Jordanian linguistics student at the University of Texas, has helped start the first mosque in Austin; he wants his fellow Muslims to have a place to pray. At Indiana University, the directory of an eleven-story building for married students reads like a Saudi Arabian telephone book. Iranian students have shouted down the Shah in several U.S. cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foreign Flood | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

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