Word: prays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thereafter, he traveled to other parts of Georgia and to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts "to witness among people who don't know about Christ." To questioners, he says that in politics he claims no "special relationship" with God. Says Carter: "I don't pray to God to let me win an election, I pray to ask God to let me do the right thing." As Governor, he prayed often, on his knees, in the seclusion of a small private room next to his office...
Died. Joe David Brown, 60, journalist and bestselling author (Addie Pray, Stars in My Crown, Kings Go Forth); of a heart attack; near Mayfield, Ga. Brown at 21 became the nation's youngest managing editor (of the Dothan, Ala., Eagle). After serving as a paratrooper in World War II, he became a TIME writer and a correspondent overseas; he later wrote for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Time-Life Books. Brown, between journalistic jobs, turned to short stories and novels, many of which were about life in the backwoods South which the courtly author knew and loved. Three books became movies...
...which visibly disturbs them since it violates their strongly Chilean sense of hospitality--and he describes the days in the Stadium. "They took one of the teachers from my school, a 50-year-old Trotskyist, and put him against the wall and asked him if he knew how to pray. He began to sing the Internationale. The machine-gunned him. I cried all night...
...PRAY FOR RHODESIA implores a bumper sticker seen on many cars in Salisbury these days. Signs in public places warn against loose talk that might jeopardize security. STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT WORDS CAN KILL YOU reads one. A BOAST NOW, A BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers...
...established players, spring training is a paid vacation, but for those who are trying to secure one of the last places on the roster, it's a time to do what you're told, and even then you have to pray...