Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vehicular homicide and grand larceny. She wandered aimlessly through the Nystroms' three-story Georgian house, once sat down to pen a short, sad note to Sperling's wife and son: "I wish it could have been me, instead of he, who died." Her pastor called to pray with her; a psychiatrist chatted with her for an hour and concluded: "I guess it amounts to the fact that there are two Christine Nystroms." Heartbroken and haggard, Fred Nystrom could only ponder the lives that Mount Vernon's model girl had mangled...
...swimming pool, three Cadillacs and a Buick, an estimated worth of $4,000,000. Gazing through his tinted picture windows at his fertile land, he recalls: "Back home we used to sit on the front porch and wait for rain. We'd go to camp meetings and pray for it. Well, out here all you have to do is push a button and you get all the rain [i.e., from deepwell systems] you want. Why, with all this land and all this water, nothing can hold us back...
...Maria in many places-and some long, too long, interviews in between. She went to an old church in Viet Nam to sing Let My People Go, to a meditation temple in Rangoon to talk religion with a Buddhist scholar, to Gandhi's shrine in New Delhi to pray and deliver-a little shakily-Lead, Kindly Light. Only once, before Burma's Premier, did modest Marian Anderson show any sign of discomfort. Eulogized U Nu for the CBS cameras: "The beauty and charm of your mind are fully expressed in the pair of your dazzling eyes and your...
...nation-wide television network to announce a new program--"This nation under God and with the aid of Sherman Adams, will see a new birth of freedom. And so, friends, every day from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. will be set aside for this nation to Pray Our Way to Power!" Pusey strikes gold. Speaking through an administrative assistant, John K. Kennedy will deny that his thesis was ghost-written. The Editors of Fortnightly challenge the executive board of the HYDC to a duel...
...Utopias." Logician Aron should know that doubt in one thing issues from faith in another. In any case, his is an unpractical enterprise in the present state of the French mind-like sending Coke to Cognac. He leaves France with nothing more nourishing than a paradox: "Let us pray for the advent of the sceptics...