Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note jointly signed by the leaders of the three political parties, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and Clement Davies. "Madam," it said, "at this time of anxiety we wish with our humble duty to assure Your Majesty that our thoughts are with you and the Princesses. It is our earnest prayer that His Majesty the King may soon be fully restored to health...
...Barracks. Most rhymes, the Opies learned, were never intended for children. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" was a 17th Century Popish prayer; "Go to bed, Tom" was once a barracks ditty. "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" possibly had a "religious background ... 'a word-picture of Our Lady's Convent' . . . the bells being the sanctus bells, the cockleshells the badges of the pilgrims, and the pretty maids the nuns...
Communist soldiers escorted Riberi from Nanking to the Hong Kong border. "I leave with sorrow," he said to those who came to meet him, "and my prayer is constantly for the Chinese people, for our priests, for our sisters and the faithful." There were special grounds for both sorrow and prayer. Behind him he was leaving imprisoned in Red China ten Catholic bishops and more than 200 priests...
...National Convocation of Methodist Youth was in full throat and full swing at Lafayette, Ind. "I wonder what you have to do not to get applause in this crowd," said one speaker, after they had applauded him for sneezing. "I noticed last night that we even applauded after prayer...
...execution time nears, the chaplain writes a letter to Liuba for the quivering Baranowski. He assures the deserter "that eternal love does not refuse him whom this world thrusts out," helps him stumble awkwardly through the Lord's Prayer, gives him the courage to stand erect until the firing squad cuts him down...