Word: prays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sheed is, finally, despite all the Catholic apologia, an original--not a leader or philosopher of any school. He is both tough-minded and entertaining. Read The Morning After, and "The Good Word" in the Sunday Times. Pray that he tackles films once more. And forgive him his forfeits and trespasses...
GEORGE BENNETT (right) is arrested while consummating the purchase of 350 pounds of heroin (left) to be smuggled into the UNITED STATES (center). Before being carted away to serve a 40-year sentence, Bennett says, "I only hope and pray that Harvard will continue my life-long policy of investment for maximum return, without regard to moral issues...
...Bandit Who Went Out into the Cold" [Dec. 6] does journalism an injustice by creating an antihero. "D.B. Cooper," the parachuting skyjacker, prints out as a courageous, daring individual. Let us pray that in the next instance God is the copilot and no lives are lost, and let us treat the recent case for what it was: a serious crime. As a commercial airline pilot, I feel my chances of being hijacked are enhanced by such reporting...
...every Passover, Jews of the Diaspora promised one another: "Next year in Jerusalem." Even for unreligious Israelis, of whom there are many, Jerusalem possesses a certain mystique because, in Israeli hands, it represents the continuity and justification of Jewish history. "I never go to the Wailing Wall to pray," admits one young secular Jerusalemite. "But I go often to the Wall...
...Tooze warned: "The shadow of the saloon is lengthening over Evanston. Soon our streets will be filled with drunks. Mrs. Mary Alice Nelson, a sympathetic teetotaler, pleaded: "Preserve our city, our beautiful city, so my grandchildren will have a clean place to live." The W.C.T.U. has organized groups to pray for a dry Evanston...