Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally overcame objections by getting from Archbishop Luis Martínez a statement: "I have nothing to say about this spectacle . . . because it is nothing that has to do with religion." Religious or not, many awed Mexicans gave El Fakir medals of the Virgin of Guadalupe, asked him to pray for them...
...told to hate and to kill. It must be so. We are not pacifists, most of us, and we recognize and undertake our terrible duty as we see it. But would it not be wiser to pray to God for a quick deliverance from wars, mass armies and their aftermaths than to assume comfortably that because more men attend church under the unusual conditions of Army life and send money home that all is readily going to be in order when this awful calamity is over...
...resorted to nightly pray...
...Peace. The people responded with anger and dismay. In Milan, despite Premier Badoglio's ban against public assemblies, they gathered in shattered streets and cried: "We got rid of one tyranny; now we must remove another." In Rome crowds shouted "Peace!" and knelt to pray with Pope Pius XII who came from the Vatican to see the raid damage...
...star's cinemarriage. Petter managed than usual are Miss Durbin's opportunities to break into song. As noon-hour entertainment for workers in an effectively photographed West Coast airplane factory, she sings the Kashmiri Song, the Seguidilla from Carmen, and the topical, not very catchy Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There...