Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to begin our centennial year [1967] with an election?" he asked. "That could mean an election this fall," leaped a newsman. "You have a very succinct way of putting things," winked Pearson. A few hours later, he told a Liberal dinner group that he would "pray for wisdom and patience during the months and years ahead-if I am chosen to continue to serve...
...will never return to Jerusalem. It is just as well, since a majority of the Neturei Karta bitterly condemns him as a social outcast. But while other elders of the sect are squabbling to see who will replace the lost leader, a loyal handful of Blau's followers pray silently for his return. "In the Talmud," says one, "it is written that a city can breathe only through its righteous man. Now that Amram has left Jerusalem, I cannot sleep at night, for the city is no longer safe...
Refreshed after a summer's rest, Pope Paul VI last week asked the world's Catholics to pray for the success of the Vatican Council's fourth and probably final session, which begins in Rome Sept. 14. It was a request that the participating bishops could wholeheartedly echo, although perhaps for motives different from the Pope's. After the shattering climax of the third session, when a conservative minority blocked a vote on religious liberty and the Pope overruled the council by unilaterally declaring Mary the Mother of the Church, many leaders could do with...
...construction of new pumping and pipeline facilities. Northern New Jersey, which had been expected to fun out of water in mid-November, and New York City, which faced the same fate in February, thus won a reprieve in which to devise new conservation methods, tap new water sources and pray...
Wistfully, Sukarno regretted that he could not live for a thousand years, but "I pray that my concepts, my teachings, will live for another thousand years." Such incantations drew applause all right, but the crowd of 60,000 was the smallest and the most apathetic in Anniversary Day history. Perhaps by now skeptical of the ludicrous claim that Indonesia is developing an atomic bomb, the throng responded with dead silence when Sukarno threatened nuclear retaliation against his foes...