Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That evening, in the clear California night, 70,000 people crushed into the Los Angeles Coliseum, watched a Flag Day parachute bomb shoot up, heard The Star-Spangled Banner, watched the flag raised, chanted the pledge of allegiance to the flag, bowed heads in prayer, roared approval as grizzled G. O. P. Oldtimer Joseph Scott introduced "the next President of the United States...
...subject was more fully argued, more carefully considered, than the manner of election and the term of office of the Chief Executive. To men who had suffered under monarchy the question of rotation in high office was desperately real, its solution a matter of counsel as grave as prayer. For three days in June, for five days in July, the delegates debated their jealousy of Executive power, a jealousy whose roots ran far back into the American past...
...richest industrialist, has long been Mihai's playmate, but her father was jailed last week as a suspected grafter and the young King seemed to take no interest. Over the air waves Rumanians heard new Dictator Antonescu say significantly to new Puppet King Mihai: "Sire, a prayer to God to help Your Majesty...
...market left to it. Another was corn, also export-dependent, whose only records these days are set in terms of surpluses. Two others, much more significant, were the stockmarket, which measures business confidence, and construction, without whose participation no boom lasts long. Last week (subject to many a prayer for England) the up-or-down question on both these important fronts was tentatively being decided in favor of the bulls...
...suggest that if you are trying to use the old-fashioned form of address found in the King James Bible and surviving to some extent in poetry and prayer, the proper form is "How Art Thou?" But if it is the Quaker usage you are striving after, the form is "How Is Thee?", though I do not know whether the Quakers actually use this phrase...