Word: prayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after all, had a studio built for him on the back of the garage, equipped it with a piano. The boy practiced for an hour before going to school, again when he came home and again after dinner-except on the four evenings a week that he went to prayer meetings with his parents. Rachmaninoff was his idol. When Van was twelve, he decided he would win a gold medal in Moscow because Rachmaninoff had been awarded one when he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory...
...slopes of the hillsides, cheerfully trudge treacherous mountain paths with their incredible loads as they have for centuries. Today the sights and sounds of Nepal are still for the most part the timeless ones-stubby men in tiny houses, women carrying their children papoose-style, the faithful spinning the prayer wheels at the base of mound-shaped stupas, and old men talking endlessly about the possible existence of "the Thing"-the Abominable Snowman. If foreigners want to look for the Thing, they must pay a special 5,000-rupee fee (about $750) to the government, and promise not to shoot...
Although an architect has not yet been selected, plans currently call for the new mosque to include prayer facilities, a small library, and a center for Islamic religious festivals. The Islamic Society currently holds services for its one hundred members in Phillips Brooks House...
Dial M for Methodism. In Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Robert Poston dialed a telephone number, heard a man's voice pleading for help, called police, who dialed the same number, got the "Dial-a-Prayer" service of the Catalina Methodist Church...
...rarely get a day's work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week and his doctor perhaps twice a year...