Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate chaplain's prayer-"Keep before us ever the undimmed goal of a better world cleansed of its want, its fetters and its agony"-began the 1955 session. There was all the traditional opening-day handshaking and backslapping, even among old political enemies (exception: Joe McCarthy and Arthur Watkins, at their adjacent desks, leaned away from each other almost to the point of toppling off their chairs). But missing, since the death last year of North Carolina's courtly Senator Clyde Hoey, were those traditional stylemarks of senatorial dignity, the cutaway coat and the wing collar. This year...
...Methodists launched a "chain of prayer" that will last until 1956. More than 1,000 Methodist churches throughout the country have agreed to apportion an assigned 24-hour period among members so that at least two people will be praying at any given time. Two or more churches have been assigned to each day. Between 50,000 and 100,000 church members will have participated by year's end. Main subject for prayer: peace...
When Dame Edith half sings her short, glittering lines, intones her long, prayer-like ones, many a listener feels the shivers induced by the delivery of the great actresses. Now that Dylan Thomas is gone, hers is the" most startling sight-and-sound presence in English or U.S. poetry...
Modern Christians may well find some use for some of the pilgrim's practical pointers, such as the warning against letting prayer get sidetracked by "spiritual" thoughts. "If the [Devil] cannot turn us from prayer by means of vain thoughts and sinful ideas, then he . . . fills us with beautiful ideas, so that one way or another he may lure us away from prayer, which is a thing he cannot bear . . . [My teacher] taught me . . . not to admit during times of prayer even the most lofty of spiritual thoughts. And if I saw that, in the course...
Even outside this orthodox quarter, the Sabbath lies on the city like a heavy prayer shawl. The strong orthodox contingent in Jerusalem's city government has seen to it that public transportation is banned from the streets; shops and cinemas are closed. For the unobservant Jews, who make up about half Jerusalem's population outside Mea Shearim, the Sab bath became a day of insufferable tedium...