Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian Artist Elizabeth Brunner at his refuge in Mussoorie, India-the first time the god-king had permitted an artist to paint his portrait from life since his flight from Lhasa. Last week he saw the result: a likeness showing him seated before a religious scroll, holding a Buddhist prayer book...
...caused a ripple of censure himself when he arrived in Southwark wearing a bow tie) heard of the popish goings-on at St. Andrew's and called Anglican Harris on the carpet. Yes, said the priest, he celebrated the Roman Mass instead of Anglican Communion (and included a prayer for the Pope as "Head of the Church"). Yes, he had celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary-not recognized by the Church of England. In fact, said Harris, he deplored the Reformation and felt no loyalty to the post-Reformation church. Then he resigned...
Show-off lads who hurtle their old Mercs around too screechingly (turning on the afterburners) are High-school Harrys. Well-dressed and popular men are cool dads and hard cats. But the answer to every coed's prayer is a king or snow job. Many a coed, dating up a storm, gets snowed (or sewed) for an infatuated spell called snow time (if her king is too cool, she may have to shovel out the snow). During this romance, only a bad-mannered gnome or mullet would try to hook a snake (ask for a date with the snow...
...confidence -than Rocky Colavito. a man who lives baseball with the intensity of a Little Leaguer. He mumbles over box scores like a scholar spelling out Sanskrit; he shuns movies on the day of a game for fear that they will dull his batting eye; he murmurs a quiet prayer every time he goes to the plate. He can hardly wait to get out to rightfield, where his throwing arm is baseball's strongest; he can hardly wait to get back to the dugout to get his cut at the ball...
...moon had waned, the seasonal rains had begun to fall, it was time for the planting of rice, and throughout the Far East last week, Buddhists were bowed in prayer. They had flocked to their temples carrying offerings of flowers and incense, and many had journeyed to Nakorn Pathom (meaning First City), 40 miles west of Bangkok, to honor the local temple's huge, pumpkin-colored, glazed stupa (tower) that marks the site of Buddhism's establishment in Thailand 21 centuries ago. The occasion: Purima Pansa, the three-months-long Buddhist Lent that gives many of the devout...