Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upstairs, he looked down the wide corridor and said in a soft voice: "We've enjoyed living in this house. It will be hard to leave it." Rosalynn Carter, wearing a white wool suit, came out of a nearby bedroom. At the table, the President said a short prayer and then began talking of his own future, speaking slowly as he examined his feelings, the answers less swift and rehearsed than usual. "For the first time in my life," he said, "I don't have any specific goals to work toward. I've never had to face...
...heart," he told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis. "The rapids are silent, as if they're in an ice-cold grave. There have been no bear tracks for 20 days. God and Lady Nature have whispered in their ears and they're in absolute hibernation. My prayer is for snowflakes aplenty and rain in abundance. All these flush toilets man has created gobble up the water. To find a decent spring a digger must go down 100 feet in the valleys. Nature is telling us that man's abuse is killing the environment." Others will no doubt draw...
Then John Paul gave his unqualified support to the free trade union movement. "I wish to assure you," he told Walesa, "that during your difficulties I have been with you in a special way, above all through prayer, but also in every way discreetly possible." He called the creation of Solidarity "an event of great importance" and asserted that the right to form free associations is "one of the fundamental human rights." However, the Pontiff also counseled moderation, and praised the workers for their maturity "against the background of terror . . . which does not spare the lives of innocent...
...recognize her family and has the mental age of a twelve-to 18-month-old child. This glum report is disputed by Jane Hoyt, 36, a self-styled nursing-home reformer who befriended Siebert four years ago. She says that the stricken woman can mouth the Lord's Prayer and play tic-tac-toe, and she insists that Siebert is progressing. Incensed by the August agreement, Hoyt obtained a temporary restraining order that directs St. Mary's to keep Siebert alive until State Judge Lindsay Arthur can resolve the dispute...
...Prayer breakfasts and other public moments of celestial meditation are not bad in themselves, it is just that they seem to grow more numerous, louder and longer with every Administration. It is as if each new President must try to establish a better relationship with God than his predecessor did. An old and wry hand in Washington, who has served five Presidents, claims that there is a direct relationship between how much a President prays in public and how devious he is backstage...