Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference itself was taken to task by two bishops, the Most Rev. Walter A. Foery (Roman Catholic) and the Rt. Rev. Malcolm E. Peabody (Episcopalian), for failing to open with prayer...
...over the U.S. last week thousands of churches held special services to observe April 25 as a Day of Prayer. In Boston. 300 stood in a noonday drizzle for an outdoor service. In Evanston. Ill.. 500 went through the rain to St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Oilfield workers in overalls joined 2,250 Oklahoma Citizens at a Methodist service...
...torpedoed troopship not so long ago. They had worked feverishly toward the successful evacuation of the vessel. They had given their life jackets to four soldiers who were without them. They were, all together, trapped with no chance of escape. They were last seen standing on the deck in prayer. They died side by side...
...speech was a dedication rather than a proclamation, the dedication of a modest man to the service of his people. In closing, Harry Truman, devout Baptist, reached back to the Book of Kings for a prayer...
...breath held to the prayer's end. Then his blond head rolled sideways on the pillow in utter exhaustion...