Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everett Dirksen was an eight-term Congressman back in 1948 when his doctors told him that he was losing his eyesight. Though a sure winner, he declined to run for a ninth term and went home to Pekin, Ill., to pray. Dirksen, who today is almost as sound of vision as he is of voice, is genuinely convinced that what saved him from blindness was prayer-and he is determined to pass on its 20/20 benefits to the rest...
...giveaway to every Hottentot country in the world." He promised that, if elected, he would cut taxes, give teachers a $500 pay raise and schoolchildren free textbooks, and bring more industry into the state. He also promised to bring prayers back to the schoolroom. "We're going to pray in our schools in this state," he declared, "and I don't believe Lyndon Johnson would have the guts to send troops down here to try to keep us from it." He quoted the Bible, ended his speeches with a sincere "God bless...
...jolly good fellow nor to depreciate himself over his new lot." Judges old and new also study the ten judicial commandments composed by Chief Judge Edward J. Devitt of Minnesota's U.S. District Court, which range from the cautionary "Remember there are no Unimportant Cases" to the evangelical "Pray for Divine Guidance...
Perhaps one of the most indicative-and amusing-effects of American influence has been the infiltration of American English into other languages. Japanese sometimes sounds like Japlish: masukomi for mass communications, terebi for TV, demo for demonstration and the inevitable baseballisms pray bollu, storiku and hitto. Franglais permits a Frenchman to do le planning et research on le manpowerisation of a complexe industrielle before taking off for le weekend in le country. German now is splattered with such terms as discount house, shopping center, ready to wear and cash and carry. And the latest expression in Frankfurt ad agencies...
There were also plenty of churchmen more willing to give Billy his due. Among them was London's Anglican Bishop Robert Stopford, a high churchman who has previously been cool to the idea of the crusade. "We hope and pray," he said, "that the great influence of Dr. Graham's personality and message will be lasting in the lives of very many people...