Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flogging a white man and a white woman whom they had transported across the state line. The FBI said that the victims were forced to bend over a car fender, then were beaten with a machine belt nailed to a pick handle. Between blows, the victims were made to pray, and listen to sermons and hymn singing from the Klansmen...
...another." And one day, when popular hostility to Rome was at its height, Nelly's coach was mobbed by Whigs, who thought it carried the King's Catholic mistress, the Duchess of Portsmouth. Never at a loss, Nell stuck her head out of the window and bellowed: "Pray, good people, be civil. I am the Protestant whore...
...miracle," cried Mrs. Julius De Benedict, of Mariners Harbor, N.Y., when she heard the news that her son Julius, a 1st Cavalry Division corporal, was listed as one of the Red prisoners. The family had not heard from him in 13 months. "Now," said Mrs. De Benedict, "we will pray for another miracle-that he be returned home safe and sound...
...press report and Pentagon telegram-the U.S. people knew the best and the worst of the news from the enemy. Eight thousand of the 11,000 American families, whose sons, brothers, husbands and fathers had been listed as missing in action, could only hope against fading hope, or pray that the names they could not find would yet turn up in the ranks of the living. The kinfolk of the 3,198 identified U.S. captives wept, laughed, gave fervent thanks-and all the U.S. shared their painful...
...Illinois' able, freewheeling Governor Adlai Stevenson, not to be stampeded, commented: "The Tribune is entitled to its views about the world, but pray God they don't prevail now any more than they did in 1863, when the publisher said we could not win the Civil...