Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phillips Petroleum turned into a bruising and emotional struggle. When Pickens tried to buy it late last year, the company, which produces Phillips 66 gasoline, responded with a barrage of suits. Phillips also had the entire headquarters town of Bartlesville on its side. Local churches held 24-hour prayer vigils to drive off Pickens, and BOONE BUSTERS T shirts sprouted everywhere. At a public meeting, nearly 4,000 people belted out an anti-Pickens song (chorus: "There's gonna be a meeting at the old town hall tonight/ And if they try to stop us, there's gonna...
...book's centerpiece, "Station Island," that is most likely to find its way into anthologies. Set on Ireland's noted isle of pilgrimage in Lough Derg, Donegal, the long poem describes two journeys, one a pilgrimage of prayer, the other a search for self. That quest, and the thoughts it inspires, brings as much pain as enlightenment. In a typical passage, Heaney, who grew up in Northern Ireland, bitterly remembers the Catholic ghetto, and "how quick I was to know my place." In another, he faces the ghost of his cousin Colum, killed in the sectarian violence. "You confused evasion...
...brothers among the 97 signers, three have recanted. But so far not one of the sisters has backed down. On the contrary, at a strategy meeting in arctic Chicago last week, they considered an array of countermeasures: another ad soliciting support for free speech, a series of nationwide prayer services, counterhearings to coincide with the bishops' planned hearings in Washington in March on the role of women. "This is a pivotal moment in the history of the church," says Maureen Reiff, one of the lay signers of the ad. "We all feel that the attack on us appears...
Within the base communities, which average ten to 30 members each, the stress is on shared religious instruction, prayer and communal self-help. Local priests provide guidance to community leaders, but the principal focus of the groups is on relating the lessons of the Bible to the day-to-day activities of their members, be they urban slumdwellers or rural campesinos...
Reagan's plans for Monday started with another prayer service, this time at St. John's Episcopal Church. He and the First Lady were to be escorted by motorcade to the Capitol Building by 10:30 a.m. by Senators Charles McC. Mathias and Wendell Ford, the chairman and a minority member respectively of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. The split-second Inaugural script, worked out in rehearsals staged with military personnel standing in for the Reagans, called for the swearing-in to begin just before noon. The oath of office was to be administered by Chief Justice Warren...