Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the Senate chaplain finished the opening prayer one day last week, a big, white-haired man in a blue suit and bow tie walked slowly into the chamber and took his seat. Vice President Barkley, presiding, noted the white-haired Senator's presence and the members stood and applauded. Arthur Vandenberg, who had undergone nine major operations in the past seven months and had not been at his Senate desk since February, rose with some effort, smiled and made a slight...
Black crepe and mourning bands hung from every window and door in town. Despite frequent showers, hundreds knelt in prayer before the padlocked church. Only a week before, thieves had broken into the basilica of Cartago, 15 miles from San José, murdered a guard, and stolen the jewel-decked, five-inch image of Costa Rica's patroness, Our Lady of the Angels. With it, they had taken $185,000 worth of gold and jewels belonging to the church...
Polecat & Prayer. The office of Blanton's Appeal is sandwiched between the movie theater and the combination city hall and volunteer fire station. When Jack moved into the editor's chair at 21, succeeding his father (who founded the paper), he was aiming high: "Well, sir, I started out to reform the world." In practice, explains Blanton, this meant getting the Democrats back into power in Washington, D.C. Jack was more successful at covering the news of farm, livestock and plain people in Monroe County...
...those who would interpret the U.S. Constitution as a blueprint for a secularist society. Over & over again, he stresses the basically religious-and Christian-premises of the founding fathers. Even Benjamin Franklin, considered the most skeptical, urged at the Federal Convention in 1787 that each session begin with prayer. "I have lived, Sir, a long time," he said, "and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise...
Dean Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers, will open the ceremonies with a prayer. President Conant and Gordon Fair, master of Dunster House, will welcome the guests. Professor Austin W. Scott of the Law School will speak for the various faculties, and the Board of Overseers will be represented by former Governor Robert F. Bradford...