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Word: prayerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the blizzard of paperwork swept across Dwight Eisenhower's desk last week, the streams of visitors continued to flow in through the White House front door. There were more liaison luncheons with Congressmen. The Cabinet met as usual, with the now-standard minute of silent prayer to start the meeting, and the Secretaries came to the executive wing by a new route: their cars were brought in through a side gate to the back door, off limits to reporters and photographers. One morning congressional leaders turned up at 8 a.m. for orange juice and coffee, and a briefing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Lunch for Two | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...splits 70% of a huge payoff pot among pickers of all six winners, the rest among pickers of five. The widow and her kids, choosing horses strictly on the poetic ring to their names, (e.g., Guadalupana, Sortilegio), filled in the form. She turned it in with a desperate prayer: "Dear God, help me-and if You can't, may it be the devil who will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Lucky Laundress | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...about a Manhattan street. A naturally inquisitive man, Bober chased them, crawling under automobiles and peering into garbage cans until he had retrieved most of the pieces. After sponging off as much mud as he could, he found he had recovered 200 pages of a rare and valuable Islamic prayer book...

Author: By Warren H. Markarian, | Title: Art Is Where You Find It | 2/28/1953 | See Source »

Princeton made it close, but not quite close enough. Pennsylvania didn't have a prayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Top Tigers, Penn To Gain First Place in EISL | 2/24/1953 | See Source »

...talks would open with prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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