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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stars created life, they say, While busily their theories proving. But who invented stars, I pray, And got the whole megillah moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1977 | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...game mentality among the H-R Chicanos, as there has been among The Angry Chicanos in the southwest. Their activism is difficult to take seriously, as is their commitment to social justice and the ethics of intellectual honesty. They want not so much to have that change as to pray publicly, a la the pharisees for it. They are the honest-to-goodness New Great American Song and Dance Men, er, Persons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicano Consciousness | 1/11/1977 | See Source »

...reassessed his life and became a "born-again" Christian. "The presence of my belief in Christ is the most important thing in my life," says Carter. "I'm not ashamed of it." But he stresses that he feels no "special relationship" with God in politics: "I don't pray to God to let me win an election. I pray to ask God to let me do the right thing." There is no evidence that Carter has ever forced his religious views on anyone. In fact, he does

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year: I'm Jimmy Carter, and... | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

CALIFORNIA SUITE. Neil Simon in top comic form, and who, pray who, can top that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Year's Ten Best | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...tens of thousands, bringing balloons and flowers and images of the Virgin Mary. At the gateway to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, at the northern edge of Mexico City, many of the Roman Catholic pilgrims drop to their knees to shuffle painfully forward as they pray for forgiveness. On any day there are crowds at this most venerated shrine in the Americas, but on Dec. 12, the Day of Guadalupe, the crowds turn into a tidal wave of humanity. This week for the first time the day is being celebrated in a huge new basilica, a structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New Shrine for the Brown Virgin | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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