Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pray your epitaph for American land ("Going, Going . ..") applies instead to Secretary Watt's Government career...
...because Watt, as Simpson says, "is convinced that he has God on his side," he can hardly bring himself to make even a pretense of accommodation. "There are some people," Watt says about his huge mob of critics, "who will never be brought around to my philosophy. And I pray I never yield to their positions. They are wrong...
Gaddafi would like to do considerably more than pray for such a development. During the O.A.U. summit, he made headlines (and made more than a few of his African guests wince) when he urged the Arab world to unite in sending ten divisions and 500 warplanes to fight against Israel, with Gaddafi himself leading the charge. Since he floated the idea, events in Lebanon have moved gradually, suspensefully toward the sort of settlement Gaddafi so adamantly opposed. But he is still committed to the idea of leading a holy war: "I'm sticking to the proposal, and I will...
...stunned when I learned that in the Soviet Union people were not allowed to pray. But I never dreamed that I'd see the day when the U.S. forced its students to pray. Considering the social pressure on school-age children, there is no such thing as "voluntarily" reciting prayers in public school...
...colonel's bunkered command post, soldiers fill empty shell casings with water from tank trucks. The sound of outgoing Iraqi artillery is constant, there is little fire coming from the Iranian side. Some of the men sleep beneath slanting canvas hutches. Others spread carpets on the sand and pray toward Mecca. When one enemy round explodes several hundred yards away, they continue their prayers without flinching. "During the [last] battle," says the colonel, with undisguised pride, "they were in their tanks for 36 hours, buttoned down all the time, and fighting. That's why I'm certain...