Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nominations for the presidium of China's National Assembly were closed, or so everyone supposed, when up rose Ma Ching-oung, a rebel from the west. Ma could spin a prayer wheel, but he had never heard of Robert's Rules of Order. Wrapped in his purple lama's robe, his sharp eyes aglitter and his skinny arms aflutter, the delegate from Sikang Province cried hotly into the mike...
Cold Dawn. In the Republican dawn, Ohio's Congressman Clarence J. Brown, campaign director, crowed: "We will open with a prayer and close with a probe." But Joe Martin, the blacksmith's son, approached the New Day with a little more caution...
Basic neo-orthodox premises: the Bible is the authoritative-though not necessarily literal-source of divine revelation; fallen man is innately so "other" than God that he can accomplish virtually nothing by good works, prayer or fasting, but must nevertheless keep trying, in hope of rescue by Divine Grace...
...this day & age when churches are pleading, understandably, for a return to religious faith and prayer as the only means of uniting for world peace, I keep wondering why our educational institutions haven't taken steps in this direction. It seems to me that we have been neglecting an important part of our education...
...United Nations General Assembly, meeting in New York last week, was not opened with prayer. Official reason: "Too much diversity of faith...