Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choose a foreman, the jurors put their names into a hat. Since he was the only one with a hat, Roy Jackson, 64, a retired janitor, did the drawing. His random choice: himself. He smiled warily. Evelyn Washington, 27, suggested that they pray. "Lord, please guide us," she began. And then out of her Bible she read from the 24th Psalm: "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? He that has clean hands and a pure heart...
Even some allied with the movement are unhappy about the obsession with a simple freeze. "We can't just say, 'We want a freeze,' and pray that we get one," explains Ezekiel Emanuel, a second-year student at Harvard Medical School. "We have to articulate a position on what the next step is in the long process of ending the arms race." Roger Molander, the former White House strategic analyst who heads Ground Zero, a scrupulously non-partisan antinuclear educational campaign, understands that it is hard for an impassioned mass movement to accommodate either slow practical progress...
...Argentine antiaircraft gunner in Port Stanley described how he shot down a British Harrier: " 'Holy Mother of God'-and bang, bang, I knocked it down from heaven." A wounded 18-year-old Argentine conscript lay dying this week, but confided to the medic treating him, "I pray to God that I get better soon and go back to fight...
...Rios Montt has brought two elders of his church into the government: Bianci as public relations director and Alvaro Contreras as his private secretary. He frequently seeks the counsel of other elders. Adds James DeGolyer, an elder who has come from the U.S. to help the Guatemalan congregation: "We pray for Efrain and the brothers. Thousands of people are praying for them in the U.S. too. We have 24-hour prayer chains in the church for them. We believe that prayer coverage is very important...
...Speak the speech, I pray you, trippingly from the tongue," Hamlet advised actors. But that was in the days before body mikes, when a performer would be hooted off the stage if the groundlings could not hear what he was saying. Now, thanks to what is euphemistically known as "sound reinforcement," a whisper can carry as far as a shout, and a clear, powerful voice, once mandatory equipment for a stage actor, is almost superfluous. Sound technicians receive prominent billing in Broadway shows, right next to set and costume designers, and the theater, which got along quite well...