Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harrowing than the final phase of the trip. For in the long moments of the last drop, Surveyor's own computers and radar were issuing the necessary orders. And back on earth, 230,930 miles away, the craft's creators could do no more-no more than pray that their design and pre-launch calculations were all correct...
...body. The whole horrified neighborhood tumbled out compassionately with donations of food, clothing-and an extra cot. When an elderly penitent insisted that God would never forgive her for having long ago abandoned her illegitimate baby on the steps of a church, Rabbi Singer told her to fast, pray and give alms, and reminded her that God has no evil...
Villanova will get its only field points from Bizzarro and will pray for Horner, Patrick, Hamilton, and hurdler Ken Coniglio to pull them into contention...
...Hysteria. Simone de Beauvoir did not spring, like Minerva, full armed from the head of Jove. She had a mother, and the bitter title of her book was a nursing nun's obituary of Mme. de Beauvoir, who died of cancer, saying, "I'm too tired to pray: God is kind." It is a painful book to read, not least because the reader is unsure to the end whether natural piety toward the author's mother will prevail against her severe atheist principles. Mother was 77, "of an age to die," when she was attacked by severe...
...Then arose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Belcher, the Ruler, and said, 'behold, our butter stinketh, we cannot eat thereof: now, give us, we pray thee, butter that stinketh...