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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is religion: "I pray a lot"-"D'ya pray for me?" - "Uh course" As if all this were not enough, there is humor: "Rosetta Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: See Italy First | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...come Mormon George Romney had to fast and pray for 24 hours for divine guidance before deciding whether to run for Governor of Michigan when he already has decided to run for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: Letters: Mar. 16, 1962 | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

When Alexander Wiley asked him about his "thoughts on your faith," Glenn might easily have faltered, or given an embarrassed or fatuous reply, but his forthright answer won an ovation from the audience. "I can't say that while in orbit you sit there and pray," he said. "It's a very busy time . . . My religion is not a fire-engine type of religion-not one to be called on in emergency and then put God back in the woodwork. My peace has been made with my maker for a number of years, so I had no particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Colonel Wonderful | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...rack of guilt, in the slough of doubt, more homeless than any migratory bird, Tennessee Williams wrestles with his fears. "I pray a lot, especially when I'm scared," he says. No one who sees The Night of the Iguana will need to be told the words. They are in Nonno's poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

With a sense that their faith is their fortune, the Rothschilds have borne it before them like a banner, whether socially, interrupting lordly stag hunts to fast and pray on Yom Kippur, or financially, refusing help to anti-Semitic nations and regimes. In terms of traditions, Rothschilds do not merely resemble, they rival royalty, and are as much given to intermarriage (of 58 weddings of old Mayer's descendants, 29 united first cousins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money's Royalty | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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