Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bare mountainside building in the Salem* district of the Indian state of Madras, 35 Indian ascetics live and pray together. In the tradition of the Indian sanyasis (holy men), they wear coarse cotton robes dyed a bright saffron. At mealtimes they eat a strict vegetarian diet of tapioca, rice and lentils. When they chant their prayers, they sit cross-legged on the floor. They wear no shoes or sandals, for Indian custom forbids any footgear inside a holy place...
...within our economic capacities," he asked for an end of great U.S. ground armies. "The sure defense of London, New York and Paris is the fear of counterattack on Moscow from the air." He was interrupted 71 times by applause, yells and cheers. When he finished his speech-"I pray [to God] to strengthen your hands and to give you courage"-a second great ovation burst out in the auditorium. Crowds in the gallery behind the speaker's stand whistled and shouted until he turned toward them. The ovation was in marked contrast to the reception of MacArthur...
...houses and a measure of happiness, but in recent years it has brought a creeping fear: What if the supply of sulphur should run out? As the mine shaft plunged deeper and deeper into the earth, even Cabernardi's Communists went regularly to the little parish church to pray to St. Barbara that the seam might last forever...
Next day the entire village went to the church to pray that St. Barbara might find them some more sulphur...
...acknowledged that he was a Protestant and a member of the Liberal Party. The police dragged him along with them. Minutes later, Luna crawled weakly to the house of a fellow Protestant. "Pray for me," he gasped, "give me water." The police, said Luna, had taken him a little distance down the road, and stabbed him in the chest. Shortly afterward, Presbyterian Luna died...