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...filled with the dead and dying, their moans drowned by the ceaseless thunder of the exploding shells. Somehow, a voice rises above the din, proclaiming, 'I can hear myself dying.' Said one resident of the strife-torn city who has vowed never to return: I shall pray for those who are fighting. Prayer is the only hope that they have left...
...After six days of shelling, the guns are still not silent, and there are reports that people in East Beirut are starving. A woman reached by telephone describes what is happening: 'We live in the cellar of our building. There are some nuns with us and they pray, but the bombs keep falling. We finished our last tin of corned beef -one spoonful for each person. There is only half a gallon of water left, but we don't dare go up into the streets. When a dying dog came into our shelter, a boy said he would...
...Look at the Franciscan motto, 'To work is to pray,'" Robinson noted, "and it's obvious that the word 'wonk' is just 'know' spelled backwards...
...race for governor, hopes to attract twice that many votes this time around and win the election with a plurality. In order to do this, Evers must garner about 90 per cent of the black vote, win about 10 per cent of the white vote, and pray it rains on election day. His chances are slim, but alive...
...bodies of the brothers or, as some suggest, may have been used by a hidden priest to make oracular pronouncements to impress the faithful. But few of them would ever have heard him. For unlike a Christian church, the Egyptian temple was not designed for worshipers to gather to pray. Rather, it was a house built for the god himself, for his comfort and protection from prying eyes when he manifested himself. As a great king, the god did not like the company of common men. Their offerings were accepted on his behalf by the priests, a practice not always...