Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President continued: "America joins with all believers of every faith in a prayer of thanks and a plea that, whatever lies ahead, we may be strong and courageous and wise in the doing of our own tasks in accord with the Divine Will." "And now," he said, "please permit me a personal note. Mrs. Eisenhower and I wish all of you . . . everywhere a very merry Christmas . . . God rest you; let nothing you dismay." The President flipped a switch, 2,100 lights winked on the nation's Christmas tree and a bell choir rang out O Come, All Ye Faithful...
...line. Ed Begley was brilliant as the cranky iconoclast who stuck to his principles in the face of overwhelming Christian charity and forgiveness on the part of his fellow men, while Joe Maross made a believable young preacher who was both uncertain of and delighted by the results of prayer. The show was wittily produced and directed by George Roy Hill, an ex-pilot who wrote one of the best TV plays of 1953, My Brother's Keeper (TIME, March...
...considered by many to be the outstanding U.S. clergyman under 50, an expert in both theology and diplomacy. President Blake broke into one of the Boston sessions to announce "the illness, the serious illness of His Holiness, Pope Pius XII," and the delegates stood for one minute bowed in prayer to express their "sympathy for their Roman Catholic friends...
...spoonfuls of gruel and a long nap, the Pope broadcast a message "live" over Vatican Radio and the Basilica's loudspeakers. Into the microphone held before his lips he spoke with effort: "To our dear children of beloved Rome, to whom we feel as close in prayer as we are close to the Divine Master in our suffering . . . we impart, with our hearts turned to the Lord and the Immaculate Virgin, our paternal Apostolic benediction...
...taken over by the Denver diocese. Its property consisted of two battered desks, a deficit of $4,000 and a tattered mailing list. Editor Smith went to work to transform the paper. "I was only 22 then,'' said he, "and I decided on two plans-work and prayer...