Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While "cot-fishing crews" (four men with two flat-bottomed boats known as currachs or cots) rescued householders from upper-story windows, watchers on the hills knelt in the downpour and recited the Rosary. Confessionals and prayer-stools floated out of church doors. On the Galtee slopes above Tipperary, sheep, terrified by the mountain torrents, fled to the valley, leaving their lambs to perish. It had never happened before...
...winds were beginning to blow. Between showers the sun shone fitfully and there was a moon for night plowing. As Eire's farmers drove their spades deep into the soggy earth, Eire's priests prayed for the fine weather to hold. "A grand campaign of prayer and work will save us," said Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory...
...King Cotton," by John Philip Sousa; Princeton Medley, by Anderson; "Strike Up the Band," by George Gerchwin, "Prayer of Thanksgiving," by H. Kromsor. Stars and Stripes Forever," by Sousa; "Fair Harvard," arranged by Anderson...
...Times were "bedridden" it was tough not to see what Li'l Abner was doing. However, nine out of ten people then and now would drop the Star like a hot potato if any other kind of daily sheet would only come to town. The people's prayer is: please, God, send one, so we can have both sides of an issue and not have just what one paper likes shoved into our mental stomach. If Marshall Field, Hearst, McCormick or anyone wants stockholders in a new paper enterprise in Kansas City, he can figure up how many...
...focus of the current world crisis was the Near East (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). A typical Russian propaganda picture recently pointed up Soviet preoccupation with that region. Obviously designed to please the strategically scattered Moslem millions, it showed faithful Mohammedans bent in prayer at a Moscow mosque. Soviet iconography included another striking symbol of the strange alliance and devious devotions of which Soviet policy is capable: a rug from Ashkhabad (capital of the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic), into which was woven the likeness of the late Prophet Karl Marx...