Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news conference and luncheon for Mrs. Say and other relatives of American hostages was held at the American Baptist center here following a national day of prayer for the hostages by American Baptist congregations...
...case grew indirectly out of a 1982 suit in which Hand upheld two Alabama laws promoting prayers in public schools. When his ruling was reversed on appeal, an undaunted Hand accommodatingly allowed a group of parents and teachers who had intervened as defendants in the prayer dispute to proceed as plaintiffs in the textbook suit, advancing claims they had first raised in the earlier case. His ruling last week prompted hosannas from the religious right. "Humanism will no longer be guaranteed a preferred position in American education," exulted Robert Skolrood, executive director of the National Legal Foundation, a group established...
Parliament speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani declared in his weekly prayer sermon at Tehran University that the purpose of the statements by the U.S. envoys was to get Iran into a war with the Soviet Union and divert its forces from the war with Iraq...
...private Gar turned his back in embarrassment whenever the public Gar showed sentimentality or emotion toward another character. And when Gar, his father, and the long-time maid (perfectly played by Betsy Menes) are praying, the private Gar seeks to interrupt his other self's prayer with sexual thoughts...
...arms control, men who deferred superficially to Reagan's vision of a Strategic Defense Initiative entirely benevolent, so purely defensive in nature that its secrets could be shared with the world once it was put in place. Members of his Administration nodded along, as they had at the prayer breakfast in Dallas...