Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church. Their needs are often unusual: a tired, broke G.I. awakens Pastor Williams at 3 a.m., asks for and gets a bunk for the night; an Air Force captain learns that his nephew has been killed in a street accident, and Dr. Williams opens the church at midnight to pray with him; a desolate young man phones for help from a Montmartre bar. and the pastor sends Alcoholics Anonymous...
...awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls no longer needed to be reminded of Bible classes. They came on their bicycles through continual strafing attacks, both on Sundays and weekdays, to pray and sing together...
...hold many prayer vigils. At 6 p.m. each Friday, for instance, they gather in penance for the wrongs committed by the Germans against the Jews. "It cries, it cries without relief, the blood on our hands . . . no man can ever tell how mountain-high this burden," the sisters pray in unison...
Like prideful vintners everywhere, the winegrowers along the banks of West Germany's Rhine and Moselle Rivers tend their vineyards with loving care and pray fervently that the inexplicable magic of sun, rain and vines will produce a wine to remember. Last week, as they prepared for this year's vintage festivals, a dark pall hung over the vintners. The reason: an intruder wine that everyone will remember for a long, long time. Without loving care, with only cheap grapes and a different sort of magic, one of their number had produced something that millions of Germans mistook...
Hives Ready to Swarm. Knox's humor sparked and crackled through everything he did. Writing of the Mass, he remarked that the recurring word or emus (let us pray) "serves as a useful sort of alarm clock to wake us up at various points." Speaking of non-Roman Catholic denominations, he said: "With all respect to them ... all the identity discs in heaven are marked RC." His most widely quoted witticism is also one of the most famed Limericks in the language, kidding Bishop Berkeley's doctrine that things exist only when observed...