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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Central America. Moreover, Soviet adventurism may well become more dangerous when the aging leaders of the Kremlin are succeeded by a new generation that has known only expanding power. At a private dinner celebrating his confirmation by the Senate as Secretary of State, Haig told friends, "Every night I pray that [Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev stays healthy and alive for a good while to come-at least until we have caught up with the Soviet Union. Because if he goes suddenly, I believe that the young ones waiting in the wings will take over. They have never known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig: The Vicar Takes Charge | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...accused, their intriguing affair, and the misogynist overtones that many women found in Tarnower's treatment of Harris, all combined to make the trial a press spectacular, a debate over man's inhumanity to woman. Said one courtroom regular, a sharp-eyed lady of about 60: "I pray for Jean Harris every night. I know all about men. I know what they did to me. They went out with my girlfriends." And so there were television crews catching catnaps in the corner, and authors calling their agents from the makeshift phones in the lobby-cum-pressroom. After more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jean Harris: Murder with Intent to Love | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...hands were being tied behind me, I asked for time to pray. I made a full confession before God, occasionally speaking in French and English to confuse the guards, cataloguing my good and bad deeds and begging him to have mercy on my soul. As they blindfolded me, painful bolts of fear ripped up my thighs into my groin. I had trouble controlling my legs, keeping my balance. "You bastards will burn in hell," I muttered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is to Happen to Me Tonight? | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...many Americans who probably won't read another book this year. Because "direct mail is the advertising medium of the underdog," Viguerie writes and manipulates in good conscience with the mandate of the Silent Majority. Minister Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority wrote his introduction. They say that they pray daily. Viguerie says that Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative sold 3 million hardback copies and many millions in paperback; distribution providing, The New Right will probably sell more...

Author: By Peter Sanborn, | Title: From Mailbox to Bookmart | 2/5/1981 | See Source »

...future of our country and none of us wants to see them become guerrillas." The local Indians broke into applause when he assured them that they would no longer have to fear guerrilla attacks against the town. An old Indian woman raised her hands in prayer and cried out: "Pray to God you are right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Pray You Are Right, Don Jose' | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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