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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...execution, Jane Francioni's family gathered at their trim lakeside home in Slidell, 30 miles northeast of the city, to console themselves and pray. "We are totally spent," sighed Jane's anguished mother Mary Catherine. "It was we who got the life sentence." Her son Norman expressed the grief of all who were connected to the two deaths: "We're victims, they're victims, everyone's a victim in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Victim in This | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...pray- in or a party? At sacred sites around the globe, New Agers gathered to celebrate the dawn of a spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page August 31, 1987 | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...hula dancer, and she accepts mainland Christianity, first brought to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820 by missionaries. But her uncle Sam Pua Haaheo, an elderly kahuna, or expert practitioner, who taught her the chants, dances and drumming patterns of traditional hula 60 years ago, told her to "pray first to the gods of your forefathers. They were here first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: In Praise of the Goddess | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...fact, will the entire industry. Reports of near midair collisions in the U.S. jumped to 840 in 1986, from 758 the previous year. Potentially serious errors by air-traffic controllers rose to 141 in June, up 50% from the same month in 1986. "I pray a lot," says Valerie Jones of Basking Ridge, N.J., a passenger last week on a Bermuda-to-Newark flight. "You just can't take anything for granted anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Anxiety and Rage | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...dear Good, I think, dear God in whom I do not believe, It pray to you to stop this, for I am deathly frightened. Dear God, I smell my fear, with an odor as distinct as ozone on the air after a lightning flash. I feel fear so palpably it has a color, an oozing fiery red, and I feel it pitifully in my bones, which ache....Dear God, dear God, I am in agony and fear, and whatever I may have done to make you bring this down upon me, release me, please, I pray, release me. Release...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Staring at the World From the Other Side | 7/17/1987 | See Source »

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