Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chaplain Norman E. Nygaard's pocket-size Strength 'for Service to God and Country ("not for people who would understand prayer, but for people who feel compelled to pray") has sold 500,000 copies in the past nine months...
...copies. When the U.S. entered World War II, Benet was midway through another book-length narrative poem about frontier life; abandoning it for the duration, he produced such notable radio scripts as Your Army (for the This Is War series) and Dear Adolf. The President read Benet's Prayer for United Nations on his Flag Day broadcast last year...
...tenth anniversary as President of the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt said Amen to a prayer. He did not have the prayer said in strictest privacy, but in the East Room of the White House. And there to say Amen with him were the men & women of high rank in Washington: 250 Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, Congressional leaders, generals and admirals. It was a ritual the President has observed every March 4 since...
Franklin Roosevelt's Amen was loud and clear above the others. It boomed out again at the close of the Prayer for Social Justice: "Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression...
...prayer for Gandhi in the temple at Delhi was only part of a vast and tragic sense of gloom that engulfed India. In the fields the peasants laid aside their wooden plows. In mud-hut villages and princely palaces the talk was of Gandhi. Only the unbending British Raj would be blamed by millions of Indians if Gandhi died inside the guarded Palace of the Aga Khan at Poona...