Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama. Simón Bolívar (pronounced See-moan Bow-lee-var) has inspired litanies like those to the saints. His tomb at Caracas-the "Pantheon"-is almost as much a religious as a national shrine. Venezuela's President Contreras reputedly goes there to pray...
...Many coaches merely pray for clear weather instead of being prepared for rain with a weapon which clicks any day. Rain jeopardizes passes, mud curtails fancy running plays, but kicking rises in effectiveness in bad weather. Teams must kick twice as often in bad weather and better kicking wins...
...George Wishnak, onetime business manager of the acrobatic Daily Worker, explained his withdrawal from the Party: "Anyone . . . who continues to affiliate himself with or to express sympathy for the elements that support this alliance of Soviet Russia with Nazi Germany, if he is to be consistent, must pray for a Hitler victory. This I refuse...
...over to preserve order and administer justice. In Kikuyu eyes British rule merely looked like the invention of lunatics. Even more incomprehensible was the Christian religion. Why, asked incredulous natives, did God scorn polygamy when "only poor men have one wife, and God does not like poor men." Why pray when there is no immediate bad luck! An old man, dying a few years after British occupancy, summed up for his generation: "Soon I shall die, for I have seen enough...
...London church two posters appeared last week. One read, PRAY FOR PEACE. THIS CHURCH IS OPEN ALL DAY; the other, IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM. But Europe's war-struck millions needed no such calls to prayer. From the crowded churches of a whole continent rose a spontaneous litany. Some religious footnotes to the week's headlined woe: >Closed to the public were Westminster Abbey's Royal Chapels, their tombs sandbagged, many of their effigies removed. On the black marble slab of Great Britain's Unknown Warrior in the Abbey's nave...