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...nuns praised their captors, who allowed them to pray seven times a day, as required by the rules of the Carmelite order. The nuns, who had luggage boys to carry two guitars, five umbrellas and extra clothes, later called the experience a "picnic...
...what can you do when the leader of the West is such a stickler for rules. So I cried to him, "Oh great arbiter of the West, please hear my cries. I pray to you have mercy (another great Western trait) on my soul and let me rejoin the just philosophical tradition that I learned at my mother's bosom. Your judgement is the right judgement Mr. President, and I obey your commands but now please reconsider. Please, pleeeze...." He didn't listen...
...brass plaque embedded in the wood of what is now known as the surrender deck memorializes that moment in Tokyo Bay: 0908, Sept. 2, 1945. V-J day. The conclusion of World War II. "Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always," MacArthur told Americans huddled around radios in darkness half a world away...
Confronted with the wettest eight-month period in 57 years, commissioners in six Utah counties first applied their customary solution. They urged residents to pray for an end to the rain that has been swelling Great Salt Lake, which has risen 13 ft. in the past five years, threatening Interstate 80, Salt Lake City international airport and shoreline industries that mean $1 billion to the state...
...pray you, sir, do not make me blush as it ill becomes me." There she stands in colonial costume, eyes modestly downcast, softly speaking in the formal rhythms of the 18th century--the incarnation of the Revolutionary War heroine whose story Professor Michael Burgess has won the Pulitzer Prize for retelling. So smitten is he with the idea of meeting her in the flesh that he forgets he is actually encountering an actress named Faith Healy (Michelle Pfeiffer), leading lady of the Hollywood company that is turning his college town into a location for a distressingly free adaptation...