Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juxtaposition of Sinatra's "Polo Grounds for a closet," and Wouk's "Possessions are disastrous," or again, Sinatra's "I don't need anybody in the world. I did it all myself," and Wouk, whose day "does not begin at his desk, but in prayer...
...than 100,000 Roman Catholics at the 21st annual pilgrimage of the Pittsburgh Greek Rite Diocese to the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help heard Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York sing the first pontifical Mass (Byzantine rite) ever offered in English. The congregation joined in prayer for the conversion of Russia. Bishop Sheen prayed that the Communist hammer-and-sickle symbol "may be transfigured so that the sickle will look like the moon under Our Lady's feet and the hammer like the cross from which Christ will forgive His persecutors." ¶Peking Communist magazine...
...morning prayer service one day last week, the departing students joined in a prayer that one of them, Douglas Vair of Virginia Theological Seminary, had composed for the occasion...
...Gurkha police combing the jungle for his quarry. As an added precaution, he himself climbed to a mountain shrine in Amarnath to ask help of the god Siva. One day last week, as Man Singh sat resting under a banyan tree near the village of Kakekapura, Siva answered the prayer. A telephone rang in the New Delhi residence of Jawaharlal Nehru, and over it a jubilant voice crowed to India's Prime Minister: "Panditji, this is Home Minister Dixit. We have just killed Man Singh...
...Craftsman. His day does not begin at his desk, but in prayer, for which he dons the traditional black-and-white prayer shawl and straps phylacteries (small leather cases containing texts from...