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Word: prayerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacred moment. The bereaved family and other mourners were gathered one day last week around a gravesite in National Memorial Park cemetery, near Falls Church, Va. across the Potomac from Washington. Suddenly, as the rabbi bowed his head in prayer, a raucous blast of hillbilly music disrupted the burial ceremony. As the casket was lowered into the earth, it was accompanied by another chorus of mooing mountain music. Afterward, when 20 shocked and weeping mourners protested, Robert F. Marlowe, proprietor of National Memorial Park, was sorry but not surprised. The hillbilly music was just another episode in a running battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Grave Problem | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

World Day of Prayer (Fri. 10:45 p.m., CBS). With Red Barber, Dr. Ralph Bunche, Gale Storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Decibel Test. Listening to the loudest comment, observers might conclude that EDC hasn't a prayer. But the decibel level is not a fair test. Those who are for EDC are for it in a quiet resigned way: in a land so recently occupied, people do not cheer for German rearmament, but only acknowledge its necessity. A hunt for alternatives is on among those EDC opponents who accept a controlled German rearmament if only it could be achieved without any controls on France. Some might vote for EDC if the supranational clauses would not immediately be put into effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Agony Ahead | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...there. So were the Vice President, the Chief Justice of the United States, Cabinet members, Congressmen, diplomats, businessmen. They ate a sturdy breakfast (grapefruit, scrambled eggs, sausage, ham, hominy grits and gravy). Then the chairman of the meeting, Republican Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas, called order, and the annual prayer breakfast of the International Council for Christian Leadership got down to its purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Breakfast in Washington | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...from the 15th chapter of John ("This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you . . ."). Hotelman Conrad Hilton, their host, a Roman Catholic, told them: "It took a war and the frightening evil of Communism to show the world that this whole business of prayer is not a sissy, a counterfeit thing . . . Rather it is a part of man's personality, without which he limps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Breakfast in Washington | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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