Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that last year made the first nonstop flight around the world? For answering Lucky Lady, he won the biggest cash jackpot in TV history-$8,870. As Mrs. Bowen packed last week to follow her husband overseas, Captain Bowen observed: "This seems like God has answered my prayer...
...Wing & a Prayer. In Pŏ;rto Alegre, Brazil, aeronautics inspectors grounded Pilot Sebastiao Afonso Corbeta when they learned that 1) he had been landing his plane at night on a pitch-dark 100-yard strip, 2) his carburetor was full of sand, 3) his tires were patched with cut-up inner tubes, 4) he had no pilot's license...
...Mara'i Hassan Hamad, 41, an Egyptian army warrant officer, who, like Winner Abd el Rahim, had faithfully observed five prayer periods a day, trained on a diet of sesame oil, sweets and nuts...
...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...
...into her hut. But soon after, having bought some firearms and learned to use them, she became the village hunter and kept the whole area in meat, shooting game as big as hippopotamus. She knew nothing about surgery, but she studied old medical textbooks and, assisted by grit and prayer, tackled whatever came her way with uncommon success. She bought a wonderfully intelligent old Negro woman from her husband (for a few empty tin cans, a little salt and a length of cloth) and trained her to become a first-class nurse. With makeshift instruments and chronically insufficient supplies, together...