Word: pray
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...want to give Israel any reason to back out of the continuing Camp David talks on autonomy for the Palestinians. For similar reasons, the Reagan Administration was keeping silent. The tension on the West Bank, said one U.S. diplomat, was something that Washington "just has to live with and pray it doesn't get worse...
Orson Welles, 66, on why he does not pray: "I don't want to bore God. God is an artist...
Near midnight, after about two hours in the Lincoln Room, Nixon started escorting me to the elevator. He stopped at the door of the Lincoln Bedroom and suggested that he and I pray there together. There was no good way to put a period to such a tempestuous career. I am not sure that this was not as meaningful as any and more appropriate than most...
...tired to speak. But what she said was imbued with the dream of a people who had only known war: a dream that "Syrian mothers, Israeli mothers, Syrian young wives, Israeli young wives, children on both sides of the border can go to sleep at night without terror. We pray that this is a beginning for a real and lasting peace with all our neighbors and all our borders." I kissed Golda on the cheek. But she would not tolerate sentimentality for long. Mindful?and slightly resentful?of my embraces of Arab leaders, she said: "I have been afraid...
...College's pre-revolutionary years brought the 1766 "Butter Rebellion" and the plea: "Now give us we pray thee Butter that stinketh not." President Josiah Quincy in 1834 called police into the Yard for the first time to calm rioting sophomores protesting the punishment of a classmate...