Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small village of Nowy Dvor, some 20 miles from Warsaw, shirt-sleeved farmers chatted in the main square before the church, glancing toward the grey militia cars parked near by. In the dusty churchyard, women knelt to pray while children in white Communion dresses skipped about. Inside the small, battered church, Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski told an overflowing congregation that the replica of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, scheduled to arrive that day in Nowy Dvor as part of a summer-long processional to celebrate the millennium of Poland's conversion to Christianity would not come. "The authorities intercepted...
...stop. "You better get knives, you white niggers," she snarled at white marchers. "You're gonna need 'em." A pickup truck careened down the column as a white man in the passenger's seat flailed at the marchers with a club. When the demonstrators knelt to pray, they were sprayed by a white tough with a hose...
...pray tell, did Wilson wait until his senior year to apply for an academic deferment? Why did he not plan ahead for an obligation that has become as inevitable as income taxes? Why did he avoid the ROTC program, which takes at least some of the uncertainty out of pre-Army life? Come off it Gary, David, Douglas, Paul! How about a little less whining and a little more determination as we thank God that we were not born in time for Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Omaha Beach and Guam. Those young guys were inconvenienced too, you know. Because they were...
Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston absolves the undergraduate who wore a bishop's vestments and who sprinkled water on the Harvard football team during the Holy Cross game. "I hope and pray there will be no disciplinary action taken against you," Cardinal Cushing writes. Alas, the Administrative Board has already admonished the prankster...
...head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover...