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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he was in Washington recently. What made his visit notable was that Norris, who also happens to be a Bible Presbyte rian minister, brought along six asso ciates. All seven of them planted themselves outside the door of FCC Chairman Rosel Hyde, bowed their heads and began a pray-in, asking the Great Commissioner up yonder to force a decision on a TV franchise application that the FCC has been sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FCC: The Magnificent Seven | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

Bill Weeks of Dudley House, an AAU champion, won a lopsided decision over Ken Sandler of Quincy House in the 155 pound class. Sandler's punch-and-pray strategy held up for two rounds before the champ finally found his range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Takes Five Fisticuff Crowns; Weeks Triumphs | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...about their terrible profession? How could the almost offensively respectable Englishman. John Newton, who eventually switched from slave captain to clergyman, pack chained human beings into a suffocating hold as tightly as "books upon a shelf," and then retire to his well-appointed cabin to read the Bible and pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Margin of Evil | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...Barbara were an angel, I'd pray she'd watch over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Son of Rock 'n' Roll Quiz | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

Pale and tense to the point of tears, Mrs. Johnson rejoined: "Because there is a war on-and I pray there will come a just and lasting peace-that still does not give us a free ticket not to try to work at bettering the things in this country that we can better. Crime in the streets is one thing that we can solve. I am sorry I can't speak as well or as passionately on conditions of slums as you, because I have not lived there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Lady: Down to Eartha | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

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