Word: prays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negligently contributed to Anneliese's death. The bishop himself, in a thoughtful and somewhat apologetic supplement to the Würzburg diocesan paper, explained that exorcism was meant to be nothing more than a prayer for a "person who feels at the mercy [of other forces] and cannot pray for himself." Any necessary medical help must accompany it, he insisted...
...take on "the vote-hungry, free-spending congressional majority [of Democrats]." The speech was essentially, though mutedly, conservative, an evocation of Eisenhower themes. "I see Americans who love their country for what it has been and what it must become. I see Americans who in their own quiet way pray for peace. My fellow Americans, I like what...
...There is a time to pray and a time to fight," proclaimed Pastor Peter Muhlenberg, 29. Then, before his astonished flock in Woodstock, Virginia, he tore off his vestments to reveal the uniform of a militia officer. That was last January. Now Muhlenberg is colonel of the regiment he raised himself, the 8th Virginia. But the country's main Lutheran leader, his father Henry, follows Martin Luther in mistrusting revolutions. Other churches are also taking sides...
...Basque restaurant during lunchtime, Capote was out to make his readers throw up while his characters ate. But he is merely a sniggering Boy Scout compared with Jonathan Swift, who, in A Tale of a Tub, had a character kneel in the street to pray, then void his bladder in the eyes of the passersby leaning over to investigate...
...Christ in glory. They also learn Moon's law of indemnity. Both their sins and their ancestors' must be atoned for through nonstop exertion. Many of them turn over their bank accounts to the movement, and willingly cut themselves off from their own families. They honor, even pray to, Moon and his wife, as their "true parents...