Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those political preachers, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, said he thought Goldwater was angry that the newly fundamentalist conservative movement had left him behind. "I still love him, respect him, pray for him," said Falwell, adding, "In his heart, he knows he's wrong...
...often the centers of denunciations of the Sadat regime, were "nationalized," meaning that their imams (preachers) are to be replaced by "enlightened," government-sanctioned Islamic leaders. Complained one fundamentalist: "Every Muslim has his favorite sheik and his favorite mosque. How is he going to feel when he goes to pray on Friday and finds a government employee there instead...
Figuring that indoor meetings were dangerous, Mompesson moved Sunday worship into a nearby field. When pious townspeople gathered to pray for deliverance, they stood at some distance from each other. The rector and a Nonconformist minister were the only visitors to console the sick, grieving and terrified residents...
...involves the impact of Reagan's radical economics. His tax bill is based on untried "supplyside" theories that were rejected two years ago even by the Hill's senior Republicans when first proposed by Congressman Jack Kemp of New York and Senator William Roth of Delaware. "Pray God it works," said Pennsylvania's Joe McDade, a G.O.P. moderate who voted for the bill with his fingers crossed. "If this economic plan doesn't jell, where are we going to get the money for anything...
Part of that tradition involves patience in the face of uncertainty, and, save for the possibility of imprisonment, John Leary has few immediate plans. "What seems to be important now is finding people to live with, pray with, and work with, and see what comes from there. I think there's a tremendous temptation for those of us graduating from Harvard to jump from one speeding train to another, even if it's a downwardly mobile one. I have a commitment to what's happening here, to the people I'm living with, to the soup kitchen...