Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinosaur of the book's title? It is man-especially, perhaps, old humanistic liberal man-who is due either for a mutation of species or extinction. Says Koestler: "Once we hoped for Utopia; now, in a chastened mood, we can at best hope for a reprieve; pray for time and play for time; for had the dinosaur learnt the art of prayer, the only sensible petition for him would have been to go down on his scaly knees and beg, 'Lord, give me another chance...
...Take your mind off such things," Major Barbara exclaims in Shaw's play. "We never think of money or success. When all money is spent on the Army we pray for more; and it comes: it always comes." Unlike the Salvation Army in Major Barbara, Combined Charities at the College thinks continually about money and success, but neither seems to come...
...creative instinct is being denied its proper channels." ¶ Winding up a ten-day campaign at Cambridge (TIME, Nov. 21) and Oxford Universities, Evangelist Billy Graham preached to an Oxford congregation packed so tightly into St. Aldate's Church that students could not kneel to pray...
Long before daylight next morning, the Sultan drove to the holy city of Fez to kneel toward the rising sun, and to pray on a rug beside the grave of his mother, who had died of grief for her son ten days after his removal from the throne...
...publication . . . of more than 80 short stories from his pen, many ballads and . . . a novel [The Light That Failed].'' Soon he was advising viceroys and was so famous that when he fell ill in New York (he married an American), crowds knelt in Seventh Avenue to pray for his recovery...