Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pinball machines were pretty dull. The balls simply rolled back to the player; accumulating free games was a matter of luck. But the new machines incorporate a pair of mechanical devices which have taken pinball out of the shoot-and-pray classification and given the player a show for his money. One of these is the "live" bumper, essentially an electromagnet surrounding a spring; when touched by a ball it promptly squats down and sends the ball hurtling around the board. The other is the flipper, a little plastic arm controlled by buttons on the flanks of the machine, with...
...shall never cease to pray and labor to protect America, and warn and work against Communism and all the evils growing from out its rotted roots, for I believe that 'rebellion to tyrants is obedience...
...noon one day this week, Vice President Alben Barkley stepped into the Senate Chamber. Beside him walked an old friend: lean, bush-browed Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, 65. The Vice President took his place and called the Senate to order; standing in the rostrum, Dr. Harris began to pray...
...regimental journal, from which it quoted, also intended no hurt to the memory of a great soldier. General Patton's own book, War As I Knew It, edited by Mrs. Patton, quotes him as saying, when the weather cleared after he had ordered Chaplain O'Neill to pray: "God damn! Look at the weather. That O'Neill sure did some potent praying...
...sale in the U.S.; both may be soon. A salesman for Antabus is expected this month, for Abstinyl "as soon as home-market needs are satisfied, probably in two months." Once the drugs arrive, the U.S. will have to tackle regulation; drinkers with officious wives and jokester friends could pray that the rules will be tight...