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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doors to Saint Paul Church in Cambridge remained open yesterday, although the poor weather kept down the number of worshippers who came to pray for the Pope, who died of a heart attack Sunday...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Harvard Experts Hail Deceased Pontiff As a Sensitive but Cautions Reformer | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...such anxieties. "I realize that this is a scientific miracle," she told the Daily Mail. "But in a way, science has made us turn to God. We are not religious people. But when we discovered that all was working well and I was pregnant, we just had to pray to God to give our thanks. It seemed right and natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Fool (or Not) with Mother Nature | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...perfect airplane book should distract during long, tedious hours of bad food and crying babies without absorbing so completely that the reader forgets to pray for a smooth landing. If, in addition, it whets the appetite for faraway places, the summertime traveler has the perfect prelude to vacation reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...held a private memorial Mass in the modern Church of Christ the King in Rome. A cleric read a prayer composed by the slain statesman's widow, Eleonora, who had pleaded in vain with party and government leaders to negotiate for her husband's life. "We pray that we may be delivered from every desire for vengeance," it said in part. "We implore mercy for the executors of the horrible crime, and for all those who. out of fear, meanness and jealousy, consented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Vote and More Violence | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...instead been the victims. Similarly, the same sort of defensive psychological mechanisms have enabled the courageous, homeless Palestinians and war-stricken Lebanese to withstand such perpetual agony. Just as Iraelis try to forget the danger by placing their fate in God's will, so do victimized Arabs sing and pray to Allah...

Author: By Nina J. Lahoud, | Title: Thirty Years of Frustration | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

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