Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...note of moral dignity it gave to the rising protests in the U.S. "When the missionaries first came to Africa," he told a celebrity-studded audience at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, "they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land." After the laughter, Tutu switched moods. "Where is the anger?" he asked, referring to the U.S. Government. "Constructive engagement is an abomination, an unmitigated disaster...
...striations. The naked surface gives the mansion more depth and a shadowy European flavor. Whoever comes back down Pennsylvania Avenue next January after taking the oath of office as President will be the first newly installed Chief Executive to see the pristine stone since Andrew Jackson's time. Pray that Old Hickory's spirit still resides thereabouts, because the new President will need all the help...
Together with their language and literature, the Sikhs cherish their religious customs and institutions. A newcomer is initiated by being anointed with sweet water that has been stirred in an iron bowl with a double-edged dagger. Sikhs pray together on equal footing in gurdwaras, or temples, through which reverberate chanted verses from the sacred book known as the Granth Sahib. The holiest of holies is the Golden Temple at Amritsar, some 250 miles northwest of Delhi, the shrine that was stormed by government troops five months ago. Rejecting all idols as false, the Sikh (the name means disciple) draws...
...support Reagan for a variety of emotional and non-intellectual reasons. Among them: feeling secure with a macho president; knowing their expected affluence will not be touched by a laisse-faire president; having a leader who does not demand more from them than that they prosper, multiply, and maybe pray...
What this parish and its 950 families needed was a parish hall. With a separate facility for bingo, dances, the women's club, the men's club and other functions, the church could get rid of its collapsible chairs and pray from the proper seat of religion, pews. Providentially, in the collection plate on Reynolds' second Christmas at St. Henry's was a check for $20,000. "I had never seen a check for $20,000," he recalls with wonder. He wrote its author, the president of a cement company, a note of gratitude. Four days...