Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medium through which the sick person is able to believe in and accept the healing powers of nature, which can then take over and do the job. On his visit to a patient, he generally talks for a while of these powers and of God, then begins to pray. After praying, he says, he feels "vibrations" building up inside him, and when he touches the sick ones the vibrations pass from his "body into theirs, bringing relief. His work seems especially successful with paralytics and victims of nervous ailments...
...little man, "conserve your energies on offense. You can't rest on defense." The boys bounded up from the benches; clapping and shouting, they moved into a huddle. Hands piled on hands, players and coach recited a Hail Mary at abracadabra speed, ended it: "Mary, Queen of Victory, pray for us." Then Edgar Hickey and his St. Louis University Billikens were ready for the finals of the National Intercollegiate Invitation Basketball Tournament...
...Eucharist, he says, they "took as their model . . . not the primitive corporate action with its movement and singing, but the medieval Western development of low Mass-the 'simple said service' performed by a single minister, at which the people had only to look and listen and silently pray...
...Party's conspiracy against the state, Prague shivered with cold and fright. Truckloads of armed police with brand-new automatic rifles rumbled through the streets. Opposition leaders were arrested and Parliament, scheduled to meet next day, postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain calm." Late into the night dense crowds surged through the streets, shouting confused slogans...
...made not by "forces" or governments or classes, but by individual people. The world's movers and shakers, said the prospectus, are "something more than stage figures with a name. It is important to know what they drink. It is more important to know to what gods they pray and what kind of fights they love." Stories told in flesh & blood terms would get into the readers' minds when stories told in journalistic banalities would...