Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tired to speak. But what she said was imbued with the dream of a people who had only known war: a dream that "Syrian mothers, Israeli mothers, Syrian young wives, Israeli young wives, children on both sides of the border can go to sleep at night without terror. We pray that this is a beginning for a real and lasting peace with all our neighbors and all our borders." I kissed Golda on the cheek. But she would not tolerate sentimentality for long. Mindful?and slightly resentful?of my embraces of Arab leaders, she said: "I have been afraid...
...College's pre-revolutionary years brought the 1766 "Butter Rebellion" and the plea: "Now give us we pray thee Butter that stinketh not." President Josiah Quincy in 1834 called police into the Yard for the first time to calm rioting sophomores protesting the punishment of a classmate...
...never willing to fight strongly enough to such a proposal into law. Helms has a that would do just that; if it comes to a roll call on the House and Senate a majority will probably be unwill to go on record as being opposed to al children to pray...
...hard as well, deluging legislators with warnings that the ERA disturbed the "divine order" and had objectionable "consequences": unisex toilets, abolition of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, homosexual marriages, a military draft for women. Their arguments evidently got a sympathetic hearing. Said Senator Norman Lamb: "I hope and pray that women, ladies and girls will not be dragged down to the level of men by the passage of the 27th Amendment." The ERA's broad constitutional language worked against it in the end. Said Darlene Ramming of Hinton, Okla.: "It doesn't say enough...
...Bradley was foreclosing a series of mortgages, a crowd of farmers kidnaped him from his courtroom, drove him into the countryside and strung him up until he nearly lost consciousness. Then they revived him, crowned him with a truck hubcap and forced him to his knees. "O Lord, I pray thee," the judge gasped, "do justice...