Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defeat. In Salem, Ore., eight years after he bought his uniform as State Police Superintendent, Charles P. Pray gave it away, explained: "I just couldn't adjust myself to wearing...
...late in the afternoon and the new Premier was in a hurry. But one matter had first to be attended to. He hastened to Yasukuni shrine, attended the deification ceremonies for 15,000 war dead newly fallen in China. He stopped, too, to pray briefly at the shrine of Emperor Meiji, founder of the Empire, and at the shrine of Admiral Togo, conqueror of the Russians...
...Pray charge your glasses, gentlemen...
...Dutch Protestants and Catholics are fighting the Nazis more openly on the matter of anti-Semitism than Christians anywhere else in occupied Europe. Both still pray in public for Queen Wilhelmina...
...driven to religion. "I do not care to see the sex," he said later, "except shut up and curtained from sight, like so many mysteries not to be regarded save with a kind of horror." As a Capuchin, his "Spartan taste for the uncomfortable," made him prefer to pray standing, barefoot, on the stone floor. When he became sleepy and tired, he stood...