Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First: Zounds! I well knoweth, kind sir, that all the world's a stage, but what, pray tell, are these two baseball players doing...
...example of success: an Indian born and raised in Trinidad, then a British colony, who had won a scholarship to Oxford and afterward, as an admirable writer, earned much favor in Western eyes. All that those mullahs and ayatullahs seemed to want was to make trouble and pray. Naipaul's report on this journey was written more in anger than sorrow, and the formula that he had earlier used to criticize Argentina (The Return of Eva Perón) or his ancestral homeland (India: A Wounded Civilization) began to seem a trifle predictable: the author regrets to find...
...tonight." Many young women in the choir, clad in orange dresses and white headbands, wept along with him. As Graham quietly thanked Konovalchik, a clergyman who had come from Moscow strode to the pulpit to offer a prayer: "You shed your blood for Russia too, O Lord. We pray that a surge of revival may start in this house of ours...
...China's provinces, as well as Shanghai, its largest city. The operator of a small retail business tells a foreigner on a train in central China that several dozen house-church leaders are under arrest in the city of Xian. Says the businessman: "All we can do is pray and weep for them." A Protestant writes a letter telling of public notices posted in Fuyang, west of Shanghai, ordering Christians not to share their faith beyond that city or to listen to short-wave Gospel broadcasts. A woman evangelist, one of 130 house-church leaders from Henan province...
Snowdon appreciates that kind of graciousness. "It's agony going on a film set the first time," he says. "You pray you are going to see somebody you know. It's exactly like going back to school for the first day." On the set of Passage he faced an additional hurdle, his daunting regard for the director: "The first two days in Bangalore I didn't want to talk to Lean. I was in such awe I wanted to fade into the background...