Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 1775 an angry American General, George Washington, wrote of a large section of the American people: "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stockjobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another ... I never saw before and pray God I may never be witness to again. . . . Such a dirty mercenary spirit pervades the whole that I should not be surprised at any disaster that may happen...
...come sliding right up to our positions. We could hear them signaling with bamboo sticks: 'tap-tap-tap-tap,' then a pause, and then 'tap-tap.' Then a grenade would land somewhere near by so when we heard the tappings, we'd just pray that the next one wasn...
When Confucius was sick and his disciples wanted to pray for him, the man by whose teachings 450 million Chinese live today said genially that it was unnecessary. "In this, the truest sense, he could say that his whole life had been a prayer," says Dr. Lionel Giles, most eloquent of Chinese scholars. "Therein lay his greatness...
...have no sorrows in heaven, And that's where I pray...
...shellfire, on Betio's crowded, scant square mile (see cut). But they could not be sure that even this tremendous pre-landing bombardment would wreck the defenses built by the Japs. On the night before battle, sweat-drenched men packed the wardroom, spilled into the passageways to pray with their chaplains...