Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jobs for the unemployed. Voters thought the Republicans had a slight advantage in dealing with the Soviets and with Government waste. Those polled said that they would be far likelier to base their presidential vote on broad concerns rather than on narrower social issues, such as gun control, school prayer and abortion...
...face cupped in his hands Franklin Delano Roosevelt began the biggest day of his life with that prayer ringing in his ears at Washington's St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Park from the White House. For the 20-minute service in the plain white chapel he had gathered about him his family, his Cabinet, a few close friends. At the altar in cassock & surplice stood his old schoolmaster, Groton's Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody who had married him to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. From his heart, from the hearts of his little band of worshippers, from...
...faithful Herman Rogers. She wore a dress that most U. S. department stores were soon to feature: soft blue crepe with a tight, buttoned bodice, a halo-shaped hat of the same color. At her throat was a tremendous diamond-&-sapphire brooch. Mrs. Warfield carried a prayer book, wore a large lavender orchid at her waist...
...Newark more than 20 families wrapped their faces in wet towels to save themselves from the gas raid, tied up traffic with their calls for gas masks and ambulances. In Harlem the godly gathered in prayer. Eight hundred and seventy-five panic-stricken people phoned the New York Times alone. St. Michael's Hospital, Newark, treated 15 people for shock. A man called the Dixie Bus Terminal, shouting "The World is coming to an end and I've got a lot to do!" In Providence frightened townsfolk demanded that the electric company black out the city to save...
...Orwell and his monstrous doublethink, how is one to live responsibly in this world without a certain amount of doublethinking? Orwell described doublethink as accepting "two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously." Is there no doublethinking required about abortion, school prayer, foreign policy, nuclear weapons? What would be the advantage of singlethinking on such issues, unless one thrives on zealotry and has a deep-seated passion to be wrong...