Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Rains ... In Bogotá, Colombia, after holding special services to pray for rain, citizens had to call on the army and Red Cross to rescue 50 families made homeless by flood waters...
...fact, had simmered down a good deal since the old days. It might even happen, now that they had got rid of the Black & Tans for good, that the Irish might get to be friends with the British. To his former subjects, the King sent a touching message. "I pray that every blessing may be with you today and in the future," said His Majesty. "God Save the King" sang Anne Maggie Crowley, a Dublin newsvendor, as she elbowed her way through the crowds, carrying a scribbled poster: "King George recognizes Republic!" Shouts of "Good Old George" mingled with those...
...some 470,000 coal miners east of the Mississippi River to quit work for two weeks to "mourn the unnecessary slaughter of 55,115 men killed and injured in the calendar year, 1948, during Boyd's incumbency of his usurped office . . . Concurrently," ordered Lewis, "the mine workers will pray for relief . . . [and the ousting] of an ignorant and incompetent Boyd." The mourning period put out of work an additional 69,000 employees of coal-carrying eastern railways...
...only once since 1800, the Gazette (circ. 9,200) has had eight different names and has suffered more violent changes. Gazette Founder Samuel Snowden and son Edgar pursued a, conservative editorial way until the Civil War. When Federal occupation troops arrested an Alexandria minister in church for refusing to pray for Abraham Lincoln, the Gazette cried out at the indignity. Angry Unionists burned the offices down, and the paper had to publish underground. When it finally made peace with the Unionists and emerged, the Gazette was still unreconstructed...
...Mindszenty's tormentors the Pope said: "Let us all pray . . . that those who rashly dare to trample on the liberty of the Church and the rights of human conscience may at length understand that no civil society can endure when religion has been suppressed and God, as it were, driven into exile...