Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Knoxville court. The room was not far from the site of the 1982 ; World's Fair, which he made a success, and the gleaming headquarters building of the United American Bank, where he had been chairman. "I want to apologize for what I've done," said Butcher, 49. "I pray for the opportunity to try to restore or right some of the wrongs . . . My little boy there, nine years old, thinks I'm going to be gone 20 years." But Federal Judge William K. Thomas remained unmoved, sentencing Butcher to 20 years in prison, the maximum he could receive...
...prayer during an appropriate moment of silence." In a dizzying array of dissents and concurrences, the fractured court indicated that at least five Justices -- and perhaps all nine -- are willing to uphold moments of silence if legislatures and teachers do not explicitly encourage students to use the time to pray...
...Isles along, said that Von Bulow may have been a "cad," but he was not a murderer. Andrea Reynolds, Von Bulow's thrice-married Hungarian-born companion, told the New York Post: "Alexandra is a very pretty girl, but she is not what I call marriage material." Why not, pray tell? "She doesn't seem to be very monogamous, my dear," sniped Reynolds...
...pray for them?" he had asked finding her prayer income comprehensible...
Muslims who are traveling get a special dispensation: they are required to pray only three times a day instead of the usual five. For seven days next month, however, one itinerant supplicant may find it difficult to perform the ritual of touching his forehead to the floor during prayers. As a "payload specialist" on the next voyage of the space shuttle Discovery, Saudi Prince % Sultan ibn Salman ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, a nephew of King Fahd's, will help supervise the launch of Arabsat 1B, a communications satellite funded by 22 Arab countries. Says he: "My flight has great...