Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready for them. As the first shovel bit the dirt, Tom Hugo strode from his house, fell on his knees and cried: "Haro! Haro! Haro! à l'aide, mon Prince, on me fait tort!" (Help, my prince, I am being wronged). Then he recited the Lord's Prayer in French. Without a word, the workmen picked up their tools...
...When he went on his knees," observed a carpenter standing by, "I knew straight off what he was up to. When he said the prayer in French, I knew he had them stopped proper...
...enjoyed a considerable critical success for that casual age, it was six months before she told her father about it. With remarkable firmness for a girl of that time, she early refused to marry her father's candidate for her hand; later she missed a shot at a prayer-reading super-respectable Colonel Dig-by; finally at 41 she had enough gumption to marry an almost penniless French emigre. She was a strange mixture of the prudise and the unconventional, though admittedly far more of the former...
...almost express a prayer about it," said Majority Leader Scott Lucas, ". . . that somehow we who serve here in the Senate . . . will harmonize and unite." He was talking about foreign policy, making his plea at the end of a day of bitter debate, of argument over who was responsible for the China fiasco and continuing Republican charges that the State Department was to blame. Those charges were "a base slander," Texas' white-maned old Tom Connally had shouted. "Where, at the appropriate time, were the voices that now proclaim their virtues and their schemes?" The voices were there, the Republicans...
...mass destruction of populations. Some of us, on the other hand, believing that our people and the other free societies should not be left without the means of defense through the threat of retaliation, support the attempt to construct the new weapon. All of us unite in the prayer that it may never be used...