Word: prays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Each of the onlookers in the grandstand got yellow "peace buttons" to wear in their lapels. Each signed individual cards promising to "repent and pray" for the "Chinese, Filipinos and South Sea Islanders whose houses our troops had pillaged and burned, whose properties they looted, whose families they insulted and killed." This humility was echoed over a loud speaker at a baseball game between a badly outclassed team from MacArthur's headquarters and a team from the Japanese Ministry of Trade. "Please," the announcer urged the audience in Japanese, "applaud more loudly for the Americans...
...Sweden, Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet wondered tearfully "how a little country can hold itself alone in an evil world." In Istanbul, the daily Cumhuriyet sighed: "All we can do is pray to Allah that he grant some wisdom to humanity...
...have a cancer." He ran from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room. Réal then told the woman to pray. As she left, she put a $10 bill in the center of the table...
...governments or classes, but by individual people. The world's movers and shakers, said [TIME'S original'] 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...
...results are already easy to detect even from the loudspeaker end. The old sing-preach-and-pray formula that made radio religion a drug on the market is giving way more & more to the kind of religious programming that competes with secular shows: religious newscasts, interviews, round tables, special events and dramatic shows...