Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white-haired man with an owlish look rose at his desk in the U.S. Senate and began to read from the manuscript before him. His resonant voice rolled across the quiet chamber: "Each of us can only speak according to his little lights-and pray for a composite wisdom that shall lead us to high, safe ground." So Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, of Michigan, swung into a 39-minute oration which galvanized the Senate...
...Then I remember that I must not grow lax, and I pray for the union of all Rumanians; I pray that through my suffering I may be the subterranean mine which blows up the wall of division between Rumanians, so that all Rumanians shall be brothers, and the church shall be freed promptly and completely...
...thing about that for eight or nine months." Darrell Labrenz, stubbornly opposed to all that had been done for Cheryl, said: "Those who forced the issue are the ones who are responsible for sinning." Said Rhoda Labrenz simply: "Of course I want my baby to live. And I pray that she does...
...Needs Men (Paul Graetz] goes back a hundred years to tell an absorbing story of the hardy islanders of Sein, off France's Brittany coast, who used to pray for shipwrecks to augment their bare subsistence from the sea. Sometimes they helped their prayers along by luring ships on to the rocks. But when the tiny island's single priest gave up his flock as incorrigible sinners and returned to the mainland, it was unthinkable for the Godfearing islanders to give up their religion. In a curious mixture of devotion and sacrilege, they drafted one of their...
...three years, though he continued to attend church and pray vigorously, Candler sank deeper & deeper into alcoholism. Then two things happened. In his private zoo, a Bengal tiger which "had killed two or three trainers and handlers" was scheduled to be shot. Candler asked that the beast be turned over to him and set out to tame him by himself. "I came to the conclusion that his rage was due to fear ... It seemed to me that only one power was great enough to tame him, to drive out his fear-the power of kindness. I spent long hours with...