Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Lady Macbeth, surgeons and x-ray specialists forever worry about their hands. Surgeons wring theirs to keep them supple, and pray that arthritis may never stiffen the joints. X-ray specialists search their hands for blemishes, and pray that x-ray burns may never compel an amputation...
...When the Emperor of India got to the part of his speech in which he announced that, after seven years of toil, the India Report was ready (see col. 2). His Majesty said with visible emotion: "I pray that both your Houses, upon whom now rests the responsibility for deciding these issues, may approach the task before them with the single aim of furthering the well-being of my Empire...
Urging the faithful to pray for an end of the persecution, the prelates did not forget U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels whom many a Catholic has accused of publicly giving aid and comfort to the Mexican Government (TIME, Oct. 15 et seq.). Omitting specific mention of that aging Methodist, a paragraph in the hierarchy's statement was aimed straight at him: "We cannot but deplore the expressions unwittingly offered, at times, of sympathy with and support of governments and policies which are absolutely at variance with our own American principles. They give color to the boast of the supporters...
...Pray silence, milords and gentlemen. . . . I give you the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prosperity to the Public Purse...
...variant of the "Do, Jesus!" found among oldtime Negroes in the South. The expression in full: "Do, Jesus, he'p me to pray...