Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand for hours in buckets of ice to reduce the swelling, but he was winning races anyway-the Governor's Gold Cup at Bowie, the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct. Fuller finally decided to take a big gamble, enter the horse in the Kentucky Derby, and pray that his ankles held up. Last week, with one of the most stirring stretch drives in Derby history, Owner Fuller's gimpy grey won the 94th running of the famed race, and the question was: what price Dancer's Image...
...humbly suggest to all who ponder the relevancy of the church in a modern setting that we stop talking so much, be quiet and think and pray. Sometimes, it seems to me, our theologians and intellectuals confound the very ideas they wish to propound by indulging in so much pompous, convoluted verbosity. The rest of us-the prosaic mass-have traditionally looked to our founding fathers and religious leaders to help us articulate that which we so inadequately proclaim. I, for one, am not confused by God, or the church, or my place in a secular world. I am confused...
...work on a sequel, to be titled Numquam. "The whole is based on a passage from Petronius," he explains, "which talks about now or never, nunc ant numquam. In the old days, the passage says, the women would mess themselves up and go on top of the mountain and pray for rain, and believe in it, and say, 'Now or Never,' and the rain would come. In the modern age, we don't believe we can move Heaven any more." Durrell's hero learns...
...widespread government corruption that was uncovered in the trials of the military brass. Such reforms would, of course, be difficult for Nasser to undertake with out running the risk of losing control of his tightly centralized government. Even so, Nasser, who last week went with other officials to pray in a Cairo mosque, promised that he would appear on television within a week or so to explain the next stage in his self-improvement program for Egypt...
...sloping mall in front of Bascom Hall, the University of Wisconsin's main administration building. All through the rainy afternoon a cortege of mock mourners shuffled past. As they marched slowly up the hill, past a sign reading BASCOM MEMORIAL CEMETERY, CLASS OF 1968, the solemn students chanted: "Pray for the dead and the dead will pray for you; pray for the dead...