Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comparable session was a discussion of the Viet Nam War in 1969. In somber tones Speaker Tip O'Neill spoke of the overabundance of warheads possessed by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Said he: "What is happening to us? What is the cause of this madness? I hope and pray the [freeze resolution] will provide the vehicle to stop this arms race." Republican Leader Robert Michel disagreed: "The major issue confronting the world today is not the possession of nuclear arms by the U.S., but the defense and preservation of freedom. If freedom cannot be defended through any other means...
Pending the Administration's predicted upturn of the economy, about all that U.S. farmers can do is pray for plagues and bad weather overseas. Midwest cattle producers have no grudge against their counterparts in Denmark, but a recent outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease there caused Japan to suspend $215 million worth of Danish meat imports. This could mean some $100 million in unexpected sales for American cattlemen. Says Ronald Knutson, an economist at Texas A&M: "If there is a major crop failure some place in the world, we'll look back on this as a good...
...want to give Israel any reason to back out of the continuing Camp David talks on autonomy for the Palestinians. For similar reasons, the Reagan Administration was keeping silent. The tension on the West Bank, said one U.S. diplomat, was something that Washington "just has to live with and pray it doesn't get worse...
Orson Welles, 66, on why he does not pray: "I don't want to bore God. God is an artist...
Near midnight, after about two hours in the Lincoln Room, Nixon started escorting me to the elevator. He stopped at the door of the Lincoln Bedroom and suggested that he and I pray there together. There was no good way to put a period to such a tempestuous career. I am not sure that this was not as meaningful as any and more appropriate than most...