Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oddly rough and reverent tale: One of the pilots at the station, a man of genuine piety and strict devotion to business, found his bomber butting into a buzz saw of Focke-Wulf 190s over Europe. Over the intercom to his gunners he started repeating the Lord's Prayer...
...Prayer and Focke-Wulfs ran out simultaneously...
...turned up in the city of Itabaiana. Now he had disciples. They built a temple. Coming into a town, they would hang an image of Christ on a tree, kneel in prayer, lift the image aloft and triumphantly enter the town to the chorus of litanies. Antonio Conselheiro's sermons were barbarous and terrifying, clownish but dreadful, compounded of visions, prophecies, dogmatic counsels, delivered in a dull monotone, with downcast eyes, suddenly interrupted when he turned his eyes on his listeners and hypnotized them with his intensity. He preached...
...took about an hour in the briefing hut to get all the dope. Then the chaplains came in. A Protestant guy and a Catholic guy. Each had a service at the same time in opposite corners. Just said a little prayer for us and then wished us luck. Most everybody goes to one or the other. Some went on to Confession...
Short, bespectacled Gilbert Dodds kneeled and softly prayed that God grant him speed. Then the 25-year-old divinity student lined up for the final indoor mile race of 1944 in Madison Square Garden. Four minutes, 7.3 seconds later his prayer was answered munificently. With an amazing burst of last-quarter speed, he hung up a new world's record, one-tenth second faster than the mark which had stood since 1938 (TIME, March...