Search Details

Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...generally introspective mood that gripped the President last week was the statement he made to 1,000 people-many of them public officials-who attended the annual Presidential Prayer Breakfast sponsored by the International Christian Leadership. He noted that some people are skeptical of public officials who pray. "I am sure," said Johnson, "such skepticism has been deserved by some. But I am more certain that only the unknowing and the unthinking would challenge today the motives that bring our public officials together for moments of prayer and meditation." To his listeners, he seemed to be pleading for understanding when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: About 80% Normal | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Commit a foul? Play it loose? Try to steal the ball? Pray? Our Monday-morning quarterbacks suggest that it's advisable to avoid committing a foul, which would probably give Brown the lead and put the pressure on Harvard to score...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Crimson Basketball Team Defeated by Brown, 70-68 | 1/18/1965 | See Source »

...pray tell, should an excellent publication take such pains to insult 26 million people by crowning Mr. Johnson? I supported Mr. Goldwater at the cost of a few friends, which I considered negligible, but now to have lost TIME as a friend also is more than I can take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 15, 1965 | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...Egyptian bureaucracy. Century by century through Egypt's long history his reputation grew. During the Ptolemaic dynasty (323-30 B.C.), when Greeks ruled Egypt, he was identified with Asclepius, their mythical source of the healing arts; sick people limped to his shrines by the thousands to pray for miraculous cures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Search for the First Intellectual | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...Peugeot 404. In a dressing room they changed from street habits to their yellow robes. Then, amid clashing gongs and curling incense, the trio stood before a neon-lighted Buddha, chanting: "We pledge to fulfill our religious duties, to sacrifice ourselves for the defense of religion, to pray for the people and the nation to live in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Hunger & Desperation | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

Previous | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | Next