Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standings for 3½ months, they had fallen into an injury-riddled slump. With only one game remaining, they were in fifth place, virtually eliminated from the four-team playoffs. Their only hope was to defeat the Detroit Red Wings in the final game-and pray that the Chicago Black Hawks would obligingly beat the fourth-place Montreal Canadiens. That would produce a tie for fourth. Then the prized play-off slot would go to the team that had scored the most goals during the season. In that department, Montreal had a formidable margin of five...
...wastrels repent, the righte ous stand firm, and all go to heaven or hell according to their merits. Singer is neither a skeptic nor a dogmatist. To those brought up on a steady diet of realism and humanism. his simple faith is refreshing. "When I'm in trouble I pray," he said. And since I'm always in trouble I'm always praying." But he seldom goes to synagogue. "If I had small children, I would take them to synagogue . . because small children need organized religion." he said. Singer's God is a paternal God who listens to our prayers...
Whoever you are, you will soon have a great deal in common with your company. You are to be your own entertainment, a spectacle unto yourself. And you have come with the same purpose as the rest. You are here to chant, and pray, to embrace the all-knowing the all-powerful, the all-attractive. You are here to attain Krishna...
...good mate said: "Now must we pray...
...resurrected cliches that have lain dormant for decades. There are "get-out-of-my-sight" scenes that have not been witnessed since Bette Davis hung up her spites. There are pseudo profundities that recall the worst of The Lion in Winter: "I am the King of England; when I pray, God answers." Even the costumes are exaggerated. Lest the audience miss the villainous character of Cardinal Wolsey (Anthony Quayle), he is wrapped in a Satanic scarlet no vicar ever wore on earth...