Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Commander called on all to recite with him the Lord's Prayer. After the "Amen," he turned to Syngman Rhee: "Mr. President, my officers and I will now resume our military duties and leave you and your government to the discharge of civil responsibility...
Some women fainted, others knelt in prayer. The shaft wheels turned again, this time lowering sand bags to seal off the area where the 80 men had died...
Sandwiched between the brash novelties and love-dove schmalz on the bestseller lists last week was a prayer set to music. Its composer was no professional songwriter. She was a 42-year-old Cincinnati housewife named Gladys Gollahon, wife of a bus driver and mother of three children. Her song, Our Lady of Fatima, was the more-or-less accidental result of her own prayers...
Like many another American, Gladys Gollahon had been praying for peace. As a Roman Catholic, she offered her devotions especially to Our Lady of Fatima, to whom many Catholics have long addressed their prayers for the conversion of Soviet Russia. Mrs. Gollahon, who composes songs as a hobby, wrote out her prayer in simple high-school verse, turned out a sugary little melody on her piano, marked her score "slowly with expression." Sample...
This seagoing eyesore had a name: Kon-Tiki, after a Peruvian chief of 500 A.D. who had hopped a balsa-log raft to escape his enemies. Kon-Tiki had a destination, too, but it was born of a hunch and a prayer. Her captain, Norwegian Scientist Thor Heyerdahl, hoped to be carried by wind and currents to Polynesia and thus help establish his thesis: that the prehistoric settlers of Polynesia sailed from Peru. Anthropologists may argue whether Skipper Heyerdahl made his point, but no one can deny that Kon-Tiki, his book about the attempt, and the September Book...