Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reverened George A. Buttrick, preacher to the University, will offer a prayer "for liberty and peace in Middle Europe" at this morning's service in Appleton Chapel. The Memorial Church bell will also toll for two minutes at 9 a.m. "in mourning for all those who have given their lives in Hungary...
...statue of Marie Harel, or someone who was supposed to be Marie Harel, was unveiled at Vimoutiers by Alexandre Millerand, a former President of the Republic. It soon became a shrine for tourists, and also for local peasants, who often placed flowers at its feet and knelt in prayer for the secrets of properly ripened Camembert. Then, because of a G-2 mistake in World War II, both Marie and a good part of her village were blown to bits by a flight of U.S. Ninth Air Force bombers...
...when Boris began to sing, it was another matter. His voice was strong, resonant and of uncanny clarity. He began his long prayer deliberately, never let his voice reach its maximum power (he saved that for his death scene), indulged in no gasps or sobs, nevertheless developed a painful pitch of feeling as he reached the nadir, almost whispering "Gospodi!" ("Oh my God!"). Not a handclap broke the hushed silence when he finished. Christoff's Boris is no lunatic, but a sensitive, conscience-stricken man whose terror at his infanticide finally cracks his sanity. The audience loved...
...sure that he'll come through. The way I figure it, the poor kid may as well enjoy to the fullest the time he has left. I say, let him see while he can." But before reaching a final decision, Pair consulted his minister and sought guidance in prayer...
...Cromwellian realm, one hears the first rumblings of the famed Churchillian rhetoric: "The two great luminaries of law and gospel were put out: such as could not write supplied the place of judges, such as could not read, of bishops. Peace was maintained by war, licentiousness by fasting and prayer...