Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example can help us to build another New World of which our children and descendants will speak proudly 350 years from now. Eighteen years ago, my father at the White House, on just such an occasion as this, proposed the toast which I am going to propose tonight. I pray that the ancient ties of friendship between the people of the U.S. and of my peoples may long endure, and I wish you, Mr. President, every possible health and happiness...
...meeting of hard-shell Baptists-to which, in their own words, "Jews, Catholics and modernist Protestants" [and, of course, Negroes] had not been invited-drew perhaps 600 restless souls to hear North Little Rock's Rev. E. T. Burgess intone, as a final prayer: "Especially, dear Father, we pray for the man who sent troops to Arkansas and then went back to the golf course as if nothing had happened...
...hush fell over West Germany's air waves one day last week. Broadcasting stations all over the land canceled all light entertainment to stand by for news of a great ship in distress far out in the stormy Atlantic. As hundreds of Germans flocked to their churches to pray, some ten vessels of half a dozen nations fanned out into the stormy sea, and a dozen aircraft joined the search. It was no ordinary ship, buttressed with armor plate, throbbing with power and bristling with the safety devices of a modern age, that faced the furies of Hurricane Carrie...
...Japanese nation's leatherworkers, shoemakers, butchers and slaughterhouse workers. Though the etas were formally abolished as a caste in 1871 under the Meiji Restoration and the word itself was removed from dictionaries, the prejudices that surrounded them survived almost unabated from the days when they were forbidden to pray at village shrines, go outdoors between sundown and sunrise, or marry outside their class...
...scene-setting for the great central struggle. Durant devotes a third of the book to the forces and the men leading up to the Reformation proper-the grimly erudite Oxonian, Wyclif; the austere advance runner of Protestantism. John Huss; the peripatetic humanist. Desiderius Erasmus, who could "scarce forbear" to pray to "St. Socrates" and expressed in satire what many of his contemporaries mutely felt about the late-Renaissance church. Author Durant delightedly quotes from an Erasmus dialogue written on the death in 1513 of Julius II, one of the worldlier Popes, who is presented as seeking admission to heaven from...