Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schweinfurt, producing 50% of Germany's ball and roller bearings. In the Eighth's greatest single loss, $20,000,000 worth of bombers carried 593 U.S. airmen down with them. How many other pilots were wounded, how many other planes came home on a wing and a prayer, no one said...
Between the prayer and the thanksgiving, the U.S. Fifth Air Force had scraped together enough aircraft to dump 350 tons of bombs on Rabaul, Japan's Southwest Pacific air-sea bastion. The surprised Japs lost 60% of their Rabaul air force-100 planes destroyed on the ground, 51 others damaged, 26 shot down. "Sunk or destroyed" were 119 ships ranging from tiny harbor craft to destroyers...
...want and fear is "cruel delusion." What mankind needs is penitence. Cried he: "After a year and ten months of the deadliest war this country has ever fought, we in the United States still have had no day of national humiliation before the Almighty. We have observed days of prayer, but this country has not yet been on its knees before God, confessing our faults and faithlessness...
Even many of Tin Pan Alley's bestsellers, such tunes as You'll Never Know, Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer, There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, were fragrant with hillbilly spirit. All over the country were the Appalachian accents of the geetar and the country fiddle...
Groaning under record loads of passengers and freight, short of men, shy of equipment, U.S. railroads have chugged along by dint of many a huff, puff and prayer, and some luck. Now their luck seemed to be running...