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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drain on the country's foreign currency reserves. Beyond that, the government suspects that some Moslems go on the pilgrimage year after year for a more earthly reason than paying homage to Allah. As well as allowing them to venerate "the place where Abraham stood up to pray," the trip gives them an opportunity to smuggle home gold coin, jewelry and expensive cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: End of a Pilgrimage | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...President is dead." The new President spoke to reporters next day: "I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay or a bull fall on you. But last night the moon, the stars and all the planets fell on me. If you fellows ever pray, pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The World of Harry Truman | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...When the present Archbishop, the Most Rev. Emmanuel Nsubuga, asked Amin to back up his charges, he produced a letter from a Ugandan living in Kenya that, Amin charged, implied that the Catholics were in league with "Zionist and South African imperialists." Big Daddy admonished the Archbishop: "You must pray to God for forgiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: A Genuinely Black State | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...script than it deserves. Stella Stevens, looking well used but winning, is genuinely touching, Shelley Winters engagingly hammy. Gene Hackman, who seems to have the lion's share of the bad lines, nevertheless acquits himself very nicely indeed. There is one scene in which he is required to pray to God, pleading with him and admonishing him, that Hackman, against all odds, manages to make believable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Deep Six | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...believes.' Therefore the person who believes in himself is God." No soul-saving nonsense for Ike. "One thing even Jesus didn't do," he preaches, "he didn't save the world." As for prayer, Ike issues a warning: "When you kneel down to pray, you're putting yourself in a good position to get a kick in the behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: That T-Bone Religion | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

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