Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segregated Negro "location" -a maze of tin-can shanties where every other baby dies at birth-she found herself in the midst of a bloody pitched battle between East London's white cops and a mob of tribesmen. The police had broken up an illegal Negro prayer meeting; the result was a race riot which blazed for seven hours. Unafraid, Sister Aidan (real name: Dr. Elsie Quinlan) drove through the police lines and greeted her Negro friends. Some of them tried to shield her, but a howling mob, chanting "Africa!" dragged her, unresisting, from her car, cut her throat...
...snow fell. Troops were being issued the last of their winter equipment, and the Eighth Army quartermaster announced:. "No American Army, anywhere, ever began a winter better equipped or clothed . . ." In Washington, President Truman issued his annual Thanksgiving Proclamation: ". . . This year it is especially fitting that we offer a, prayer of gratitude for the spirit of unity which binds together all parts of our country and makes us one nation indivisible...
...asylum . . . A man is forbidden as if he were an apple." At the same time she wrote to her mother for a Bible ("You know it by heart, so you don't need it. But I really do need it, Mother dear . . ."), and took part in impromptu student prayer meetings. In her senior year, Edna almost lost the right to sit with her class on commencement day; she had slipped away from college for too many overnight stays. But "the class made such a fuss" that the authorities let her don cap & gown with the rest...
Religious groups have long insisted that there should be a place for prayer at United Nations headquarters. The new headquarters in Manhattan has one-at least it is a place where a man can pray if he wants to. With due regard to the anti-religious feelings of Stalin & Co., it is called a "Meditation Room...
Last week a special interfaith committee of Protestants, Jews and Catholics formally okayed the last stanza in place of a spoken prayer. If all goes according to plan, New York's schoolchildren will soon begin each day, just as most of their parents once did, by singing...