Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newly built church shot up in V-for-victory signs. Encamped in a side chapel, beneath a red-and-white banner bearing the image of the Madonna, a dozen protesters proclaimed a fast; they would drink only spring water. Still other parishioners vowed to keep a daylong prayer vigil. The demonstration that unexpectedly erupted last week in the Church of St. Joseph the Worker, a parish in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus, recalled dozens of similar protests during the bitter days of martial law. But in one respect it was remarkably different: for the first time Poles gathered...
...pitching for school prayer, Reagan accepts the odds that a majority of the prayers could be "Good Lord, don't let that man be President again...
...stressing the important role states have to play in combatting drug use and violence in schools and reinstating "traditional roles." In his televised announcement two weeks ago that he was seeking reelection, Reagan said that schools must "find room for God," a reference to his efforts to bring voluntary prayer back to the classroom...
...since Sam is a modern Everyman, God the Father and God Sam's father inevitably get mixed up. Fortunately, Cronyn doesn't pay much attention to the heavy-handed symbolism and manages to create the play's only believable character. He ends the first act with an oddly powerful prayer and unfortunately gets bogged down when he has to repeat the trick at the end of the play...
...Watergate to his first grammar school debate (he argued that girls were no good and won). What's more, he constantly interrupts his stream of jibberish, by raising his arms and launching into political rhetoric, by strewing papers around the room and slipping on them, or by going into prayer...