Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...velvet and miniver, dazzling in their show of decorations won in peace and war. In the nave, the chivalry of empire unrolled like a Bayeux tapestry. Music played, yet over 7,000 subjects, gathered to honor their Queen while worshiping their God, a hush of dedication hung like a prayer...
...prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...
...Throughout the brief installation, which consisted of a prayer, the presenting of the insignia, and President Conant's acceptance speech, there was no sound besides the speaker's voice and the crackling fire in the hearth. After the 78th Psalm had been sung by the Choir, the assembly broke up, while deans and Overseers gave a hand in removing the chairs to facilitate an approach to the long tables along the west side of the room on which the University had provided punch, tea, and sandwiches." For a half hour, Conant remained, greeting wellwishers...
...Need of Prayer. In the same issue of the Christian Century, Missionary Stockwell made his answer. "First, I stuck strictly to the truth for 14 months of solitary imprisonment, the same way that Vernon Stones . . . did. During those months when I denied all charges as completely false, the government tried my case in the papers, blackened my name and the name of the church before the public, publicly executed Wesley Hung . . . with [whom] I had been associated, and were holding my Chinese secretary in jail as an accomplice in my 'spy ring.' My honesty had not protected...
...Christian way out. I do not know. I do know that the whole experience has made me much more sympathetic toward all those . . . who have had to live out their Christian faith in a very un-Christian society. I, like them, continue to stand in the need of prayer...