Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting, and still disapproves. She never watches his fights, or hears them on the radio. Instead, she lights a candle to St. Anthony and then talks with a neighbor, "just to get it out of my mind. But once in a while we look at the clock and I pray-like in my mind. I pray neither of them gets hurt. After all, the other boy has a mother, too; he is human. Also," she adds with a smile, "I want...
...friends and opened the package with ceremony and champagne. Inside was a delicate pen & ink sketch of a girl's head. Generous but cautious Henri Matisse had written: "I am sending you . . . the object you desire, with the hope that it will please you. But I pray you not to encourage any of your friends to make a similar request of me." His mail-order job for Clem Caditz. said Painter Matisse, was "completely exceptional...
Nothing has aroused me quite as much as Eamon McDonough's letter in TIME, Aug. 18, to the effect that with a choice between "Uriah Heep" Stevenson and "Tin Soldier" Ike, he will stay away from the polls on election day and pray for the future of the country . . . Mr. McDonough should go to church, as he suggests, and pray for himself or else go behind the Iron Curtain where he could have only one choice...
...choice between Uriah Keep ("I am aware that I am the 'umblest person going") and the Constant Tin Soldier ("He did not think it right to shout in uniform"). For myself, on election day I shall go not to the election booth but to the church pew and pray for the future of the country...
...What does concern me, in common with thinking partisans of both parties, is not just winning this election, but how it is won ... I hope and pray that we Democrats . . . can campaign not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our opponents seem to prefer, but as a great opportunity to educate and elevate a people whose destiny is leadership, not alone of a rich, prosperous, contented country as in the past, but of a world in ferment...