Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Punt and Prayer...
...wasn't certain early in the season that Singleterry was going to have as good a fall as expected. In the B.U. game, the day that a feature written on him by John Powers and entitled "A Punt and a Prayer" appeared in the program, he averaged 31 yards on nine punts...
...Rome's 432 churches, prayers were offered "to spare Italy the calamity of divorce." Before an audience of 250 Italian newlyweds, Pope Paul VI declared that legislators should "venerate, honor and defend" the indissolubility of marriage. Premier Mariano Rumor urged his colleagues to make "one last careful meditation." All to no avail. Amid prayer vigils, the Chamber of Deputies adopted, by a 325-to-283 vote, a bill that will permit divorce for the first time in modern Italian history...
Dedicated, disciplined, durable, Owens is the kind of runner professional coaches dream about. And in an age when many highly touted rookies turn up at contract negotiations with some high-flying salary demands, he sounds like the answer to a general manager's prayer. "I have no preference," says Owens. "I'll be happy with any team that happens...
...drawing began at 8 p.m. at national draft headquarters in Washington. After a prayer, draft director Lewis B. Hershey ordered unlocked a black box containing 366 blue plastic capsules and had them poured into a large glass jar. Inside each capsule was a gummed paper printed with a date of the year...