Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pray that Nixon can rise to the occasion; that he has learned the perils-and emptiness-of fanatic partisanship. But no real choice remains. The deterioration of America's world position during these recent months of presidential absenteeism is a warning of worse storms ahead if the Presidency remains a sham office. It is our hope that President Eisenhower will see these truths. The issue is whether the U.S. is to have Richard Nixon as President or no President. We choose Nixon...
Marvelous Mudder. The quick Navy line bounced and jittered through so many defensive formations that Army Mockers got as fouled up as the weather. The Army infantry could never get rolling, and the cadets fell back on old-fashioned three-P football: punt, pass and pray for the breaks. They kicked repeatedly on third down, completed a couple of passes, even got a few breaks when Navy backs fumbled the waterlogged ball. But all their prayers only produced a Navy attack for which they could not fathom an answer...
...sentence: five years at hard labor. Top churchmen throughout East and West Germany protested, but they knew that in a real sense the sentence represented a victory for unbreakable Pastor Schmutzler. Said Hamburg University's Theologian Helmut Thielicke: "I know exactly what he will do now; he will pray for his enemies and become a source of life for his fellow prisoners . . . Will we ponder, on our part, how, by imprisoning him, Eastern tyranny has passed judgment on itself...
...Christian blaze. Day and night, well-organized Catholic Action workers staged rallies, Sisters of the Poor passed out leaflets, loudspeaker trucks blared Schubert's Ave Maria, 200 preachers fanned out through 31 hospitals and clinics. In churches and cinemas, banks and jails, men and women gathered to pray...
...knowledge of the Scriptures. Two weeks after he began his meetings, he was drawing crowds of 2,000 and 3,000 people. With the jungle grapevine at work, word spread that he had the power of miracle healing, and hundreds of sick and maimed Africans in Rhodesia flocked to pray at his feet...