Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 40,000 more victims of the Indian famine died last week Britain's churches announced that they would observe a Day of Prayer for India-Nov. 28. The call was sent out by William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Moderator John Baillie of the Church of Scotland, Moderator Roy D. Whitehorn of the Free Church Federal Council...
...days & nights of increasing apprehension; 2) the raid on a nearby village (Matanikau), from which only three returned (only one, in the film); 3) cleaning out the Japanese with grenades, gasoline and TNT; 4) the ferocious Japanese naval shelling of Oct. 15, 1942, during which William Bendix improvises a prayer; 5) the relief by the Army, which ends the film on a grim exchange between a battle-bittered Marine and an unblooded Army boy, and the closeup of a sign Tokyo, 3,380½ miles...
This week's cover, Himmler, just hit the spot. It came out in time for the Jewish Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) which was yesterday, Oct. 9. You could have called it the "Angel of Death." I had it before me during that day of prayer and meditation...
...perilously close to the German fighter bases on the northern tip of Jutland. Out of a cloud, like a falcon striking at a swan, came a Nazi pursuit ship, the machine-gun muzzles along its black wings blinking like baleful orange-red eyes. The Swedish pilot sobbed a prayer or a curse, threw the wheel over, kicked his rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass, and another. For ten nightmarish...
Replied Riebel: "Oh, I've dreaded that question more than any the committee could ask. It's a matter of embarrassment to a dear, dear friend of mine. . . . I say a little prayer every night for Kaiser's success at Brewster...