Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iron fields of craters . . . rolling walls made of fire and steel and plains of the dead, over which red storms drive. . . . Everything which causes feeling, from appalling physical pain to the uttermost joy of victory, is melted together here into a burning unity. . . . Song, prayer, rejoicing, cursing and weeping-what more can we wish...
...bridge the gap between Hindu and Moslem, the Mahatma each day visited at least one Moslem family to discuss the spiritual causes behind communal strife. More & more Moslems (including 20 special bodyguards) were attending his prayer meetings. All the doctors in the section were Hindus and had fled during the rioting; Gandhi, whose medical theories include sunbaths, hip baths, milk and fruit-juice diets was tending the Moslem sick...
...many witless ducks by rain and spray, stood staring out to sea. For there in the darkness, where no land had been before, blinked the thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water? To a Dublin man who tried to put through a call to Galway, a telephone operator (who didn...
...material working out every afternoon on the third floor of the Indoor Athletic Building reveals several outstanding grapplers out for the team along with ten or twelve good but inexperienced operatives. The squad is definitely not a balanced one, however, and every night Chief says a short prayer in the hope that a couple of good lightweights will appear...
...broadcast over, Christians, atheists and studio officials sat back to see what would happen. The reaction was immediate. Within seven days 5,000 listeners had written KQW. Said one: "My hope and prayer is that God will have mercy on [Scott] and [KQW] for your disbelief." Said another: "This is unconstitutional and should be discontinued." Members of the Southern Baptist Church of Modesto, Calif, voted a protest. Yet 24% of the letter writers, while mostly disagreeing with Scott's irreligion, commended the station for letting him speak his mind. A Congregational minister expressed their views: "It is good...