Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With prayer, clear thinking and hard work, let us go forward, not backward, from the U.N. There is a pattern by which nations can achieve collective security, even as states already have within the national framework...
...Night Prayer. Colonel Shoup changed the take-off pattern so that jets turned away from built-up areas, schools and nearby mink ranche, (mother minks frightened by noise stop breeding). He invited community leaders to his base, briefed them on Soviet striking forces and on his defense mission, showed them a jet scramble. He notified the public of extra flight activities, spoke at civic clubs, showed groups around the base. Soon, Madison changed its mind about the Air Force. Said one elderly resident, formerly quick to complain when awakened at night by the banshee shriek of a scrambling...
...when one rouses me, I lie quietly there in bed and say a little prayer. First, to thank God that some alert American youngster is up there in that jet watching over me. Second, I ask that the plane and the boy get safely back. After that, with no trouble at all, I turn over and go right back to sleep...
...revivals. The custom took root in the South, where musical evangelists and composers published volumes of their own songs. One of them, a trombonist-singer named Homer (Brighten the Corner Where You Are) Rodeheaver, managed the music for Billy Sunday. Gospel songs, he wrote, "are not written for prayer meetings, but to challenge the attention of people on the outside . . . They are used simply as a step from nothing to something...
...were limited to five three-minute rounds, and some basic rules were established (no biting, gouging, or kicking a man who was down). Today the sport is controlled by the national police department, and Thailand supports some 500 professional fighters. Buddhist bonzes (priests) box for exercise, and the prefight prayer is an important ritual...