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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice of Westmoreland is outrageous and is offensive to all who work and pray for peace. We need recognition for men of heroic stature in thought and action, not for military mediocrities who achieve incidental prominence through a tragic error of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...gifts to the ancient world, which had no concept of a regular weekly respite from work. Taking their cue from Biblical evidence that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jews from the earliest days kept Saturday sacred as a time to abstain from manual labor and pray to the Lord God of Israel. The early Christians kept the principle, but gradually shifted the time of observance to Sunday. It proved sound against such onslaughts as the French Revolution's attempt to establish a ten-day week, and colonialism carried it around the world. Now Sunday is almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: On the Seventh Day | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...moral's clear; it's obvious -- don't let them in, I pray. Though sweat socks smell, girl's legs are swell. BEWARE THE JUDGEMENT DAY! Richard N. Olans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TEMPLE ON THE HILL | 1/4/1966 | See Source »

Last week the Supreme Court silently refused to review PRAY's appeal from Judge Friendly's decision. Though it signifies neither approval nor disapproval, the court's action suggests that it has no intention of reconsidering its original prayer decisions-a move for which PRAY's "voluntary" argument might have opened the way. As a result, the only prayers still permissible in U.S. public schools are those that a student says to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Voluntary Prayer? | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...will ring out to celebrate its 900th birthday. Built by Edward the Confessor on a filled-in island of thorn in the Thames River, it has over the centuries become a pantheon, the sacred environs where an enlightened empire crowns its kings and queens, and where common folk can pray. With its crowded multitude of funeral statuary, the Abbey is a kind of spiritual attic containing mementos of whatever is forever England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments: The Royal Peculiar | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

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