Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope's mind was on peace. This week he issued a solemn call to prayer for peace during October. Said Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican: "May this solemn supplication asked by the Pope serve to hasten the prophetic day when all humanity . . . will find again . . . true prosperity of both individuals and nations...
...around him yelling, "Gas, gas," but, unfortunately for him, there was no officer to shout, "By the numbers, gas 1, 2, 3". The Eli was imbued with a strong sense of discipline, and he couldn't see putting on his mask without a formal command. So with a whispered prayer to God, to country, and to Yale he continued to stick it out, like the proverbial lad who stood on the burning dack whence all but he had fled...
...solemn convention of prayer and peace talk, 10,000 of Jehovah's serious-minded Witnesses gathered last week in Leicester. Before the convention was over the Witnesses had added grounds for their pacifism. They complained to police that: 1) the local Home Guard had laid down a sooty smoke screen over their campground; 2) "men in khaki uniform broke into the grounds, causing damage, beating one of Jehovah's Witnesses and knocking him unconscious...
...British will start the third year of war with a National Day of Prayer on Sunday, Sept...
This answer to an advance man's prayer happened last week at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa. Reason for it was the appearance (for ten performances) of Authors George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, aided and sabotaged by tongue-tied Harpo Marx, in their Broadway hit play, The Man Who Came to Dinner...