Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade unions to break with Attlee's policies. Finally Attlee announced: "I consider that the time has now come to ask the electors for a renewal of confidence in the government ... I have therefore asked His Majesty the King, for whose speedy restoration to full health we all pray, to grant dissolution of Parliament...
From these deeps Cowper never rose again. A "secret negative" forbade him even to pray. He walked the cliff edges, hoping against hope that he would fall; but such easy exit was denied him. "Oh wretch!" he groaned, "to whom death and life are alike impossible!" In April of 1800 his sturdy physique mercifully collapsed at last, and the release of death came to William Cowper...
Since that first plunge in 1947, Father Simon's annual water sports have raised enough money for him to paint the church and begin work on the chapel. "Now that the church is gay," his parishioners say, "we come more readily to pray there." Father Simon still owes some 450,000 francs ($1,300) on the construction work; it will take a good bit of diving to make that up. But he is full of faith and hope...
...Sensible men are all of the same religion." ("And pray what is that?") "Sensible men never tell...
...planned as a place where men & women could come from all over the world to work and pray and search in each other's company for God. It was to be a place in which there would be no more Italians or Americans or Germans, Lutherans or Calvinists or Episcopalians-only Christians. It started in the head or the heart of a young Florentine, Tullio Vinay. He was an Italian Protestant, a Waldensian pastor...