Word: prays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world. At the gathering's first major event, 85,000 rain- drenched, stomping, dancing, handkerchief-waving youths gave the Pope a roaring welcome at Mile High Stadium as he entered in his Popemobile. The celebration choked downtown Denver streets with waves of T shirt-clad teenagers (LIFE IS SHORT, PRAY HARD, read one shirt; I GOT A MILE HIGH WITH THE POPE, said another). A Babel of hymns reverberated through the city. Still, for all their energy, the celebrators maintained a remarkable display of decorum and politeness...
Sweet's penchant for infusing his lyrics with religious images is evident on Knowing People, in which he asks, "Are you made like God/ When you start to bleed/ Do you really know/ What it is to breathe?," and on Evergreen, where he declares, "You started to pray/ But all your prayers they brought no answer/ Your faith...
...Ruth the shy judge revealed the beaming grandmother, holding up an 8X10 picture of Clara being led in the toothbrush song during a nursery school visit by Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom Ginsburg did not know. Ginsburg closed her remarks with a tribute to her mother, who died young -- "I pray that I may be all that she would have been had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve, and daughters are cherished as much as sons...
...sure, there are magic tricks in Clinton's plan too. For example, the President claims $15 billion-plus to be saved over five years in unspecified work-force and administrative cost reductions. But Kasich claims to save more than $70 billion by cutting "bureaucracy" and "overhead." Exactly how, pray tell? Says the Kasich plan, piously: "It is not the role of Congress to micromanage the administrative functions of Executive Branch agencies." Oh, that explains...
Yells of joy -- and relief -- rang through the basement of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in south Los Angeles, which had become a kind of command post for efforts to head off a repeat of last year's bloody riots. Dozens of volunteers, gathered at the church to pray before walking neighborhood streets to try to keep order, joined hands nervously as the verdicts approached. At the word "guilty," all leaped to their feet, literally jumping for joy. Some hugged and kissed, others exchanged jubilant high-fives. Outside the courthouse, Rose Brown, a self-described community activist, cried, "Finally...