Word: prays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northeastern played a zone defense for all but the first few minutes of last night's game, but with no big man working any openings underneath, point guard Glenn Fine and the rest of the outside shooters found themselves playing "bomb-and-pray" for much of the evening...
...into every facet of daily life, that controls what a Chinese can read, where he can travel, how he should live. Despite the omnipresence of this Orwellian machinery, many practices of the feudal past are observed. In the privacy of their homes, there are many peasant families who still pray to Kuan-yin, the goddess of mercy, and burn incense to their ancestors. Ouija boards are regularly consulted to foretell the future. On the communes, matchmakers arrange marriages and would-be bridegrooms pay traditional bride prices, although now with a socialist tinge: an industrious girl who earns many work points...
Syama-Kunda receives plenty of attention from the approximately 30 devotees currently living at the temple. He spends most of the day playing and getting into trouble, just like other kids. But his life is also structured around a strict Krishna regime which requires that he chant and pray with the other devotees as often as five times...
...monks convene in the chapel to worship seven times each day. In the rhythm of their prayer they formally dedicate each part of their day to God. They pray at 6 a.m. after they rise; they pray before eating, working and sleeping. To discuss the choreography of the Eucharist and the Office is to risk missing the point. However, the absorption of the actors in a transcendental purpose, and the unself conscious tone of the whole performance, only increase its artistic value...
...Israelis, for their part, have bitter memories of the walls and barbed wire that divided Jerusalem until 1967, and of the despoliation of the Old City's Jewish Quarter by the Arabs. Never again, they say, can the city be divided and Jews be forbidden to pray before their holiest shrine, the Wailing Wall. To that end, the Israelis have created what they call "new facts" to make sure that Jerusalem stays unified. The Jewish Quarter of the Old City, for example, is being meticulously reconstructed, and 2,200 Israelis have settled there; prior to 1947, the Jewish population...