Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman, Acheson and Marshall, kissed wife Mamie, and set off in Marshall's shiny Constellation for Paris. A reporter said to Lieut. General Alfred Gruenther, Eisenhower's chief of staff, who accompanied him: "I hope you have the best of luck." Said Gruenther: "Don't hope. Pray...
...week Dolores and Ossorio were married by the family chaplain. No Mass was said, since, according to Spanish tradition, a Mass for a widow who remarries is not allowed. After the ceremony the weeping Dowager Maria Luisa embraced Dolores, said: "My daughter, since this is what you wanted, I pray God you may be happy." Prince Adan was the only one of the wedding party to wave goodbye. Said Prince Adan: "How wonderful! I love Don Carlito and I'll have plenty of holidays with no studying...
Westbrook Pegler got into the act with a pious statement of un-Peglerian mildness: "It is a great tragedy that in this awful hour the people of the U.S. must accept . . . the nasty malice of a President whom Bernard Baruch . . . called a rude, uncouth, ignorant man. Let us pray...
...find some of his situations too embarrassingly cozy to stomach. Example: the preacher-hero's pep talk to a college assembly. Jesus, he assures, "is in your backfield-the greatest triple threat player the world has ever known . . . He could plunge, pass and punt, that is preach, pray and penetrate to the very heart of God ... Yes, in the final minutes of the game, beaten back to His goalline, this great Champion . . . sent the ball spiralling far into the opponents' territory [and] the stone was rolled away...
What is this, he asks the Minister of Agriculture, about a cut in the sugar ration for bees? "Pray let me know what was the amount previously allotted . . . what is the saving?" When, during Churchill's illness with pneumonia, his doctor prescribed a novel for light reading, he chose Defoe's gamy Moll Flanders, "about which I had heard excellent accounts, but had not found time to test them." Having finished it, he gave it to the doctor "to cheer him up. The treatment was successful...