Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremonial procedures evolved slowly, and gradually grew in number. For a long while now, the University Marshal has officially opened Commencement with the call, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order," which follows the end of the procession. The Sheriff of Middlesex will then rise in his blue colonial garb, strike the stage three times with the scabbard of his sword and announce in a sharp Boston accent, "The meeting will be in order...
Villa Fiorita becomes a battleground so fraught with emotional crises that Director Delmer Daves, from the sound of things, must have hired extra musicians to bring pathos to a crescendo. The kids scheme, pray, go on a hunger strike, and occasionally throw up as part of a campaign that Brazzi decries as "legally and morally wrong." But children know best: in such strained and saccharine circumstances, a touch of nausea is inevitable...
...Haiti's 4,500,000 people, 90% are illiterate. Life expectancy is 32.6 years; per-capita income has slipped to $70 a year, lowest in the hemisphere. "Haitians," says Duvalier in his soft whisper, "have a destiny to suffer." And if his people complain, they can pray?from a 63-page Catechism of the Revolution turned out by the Government Printing Office and circulating last week in Port-au-Prince. The Lord's Prayer: "Our Doc who art in the National Palace for Life, hallowed be Thy name by present and future generations, Thy will be done...
...totally encapsulated life. His managers and agents, headed by the ever-canny Colonel Tom Parker, would like to present the image of a monk in sideburns but, admits Elvis, "I have looked for years. I don't plan to become a Hollywood creation who has several marriages. I pray I will find the right girl and raise a little Elvis...
...born rector of St. John's for 29 years. Since his installation, he has refused to admit Negroes to worship-except for servants attending a family wedding or funeral-on the ground that those who show up at the door want to make a political point rather than pray...