Word: prayerful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Canadian economists did not carp at the British. It was true that Britain did not have enough dollars for all her needs, logical that she should refuse to borrow more than she had a prayer of repaying. But Canada had not been niggardly in meeting Britain's needs in the war. Why should Britain now doubt that Canada would put up the money, somehow, to keep trade going...
Germany's traditional and somber Repentance Day, almost forgotten under the Nazis, was celebrated with special fervor this year. Portly, bald Theology Professor Heinrich Vogel of the University of Berlin wrote a special prayer for the occasion. In the Evangelical churches (about 1,500) of Berlin and Brandenburg synod, German heads bowed piously to its words...
...first Thanksgiving at home since Pearl Harbor, General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Corregidor, wrote this prayer for Americans...
...home and family at heart, as well as the survival of the human species, is to find a barren spot in Death Valley, a lonely crag in the Rockies, or an inaccessible farm on the Great Plains, learn the essentials of subsistence living, and settle down with a fearful prayer in his heart that perchance he will be among the scanty remnant of folk who may remain after the Atomic Age is over...
...National Council of Palestine Jews promptly proclaimed a general strike; rabbis ordered rams' horns to be blown for a day of prayer and fasting. In Tel Aviv, angry protest meetings flared into open riots. Bands of youths with smoking torches set fire to Government offices, damaged stores, stoned buildings. In the center of the all-Jewish city Zionists fought a pitched battle with police, who retreated to avoid bloodshed. Five Jews were killed and 56 injured; 23 police and soldiers were wounded, mostly with homemade hand grenades...