Word: prays
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...Soviet forces ostensibly leaving Hungary turned around and crushed the resistance. Some sort of light had been snuffed out. I can remember as if it were yesterday - it is my very first political memory - a morning assembly at my British elementary school at which we were all asked to pray ("Hands together, eyes closed ... ") for the little boys and girls in Hungary. "I went back to Hungary three weeks later," says Lessing. "The euphoria, that tremendous hope, that belief that people's lives were going to change had gone. A tremendous sadness set in." A Europe in which the memory...
...have a cigarette. I was totally not that person. The people in the room pretended that nothing unusual was going on, but when it was over I ran into the bathroom and looked at my face, and I looked like I just climbed out of a pool. I pray the people at Fox have honor, man. I beg them, Destroy that tape." His discomfort with auditions, Benjamin believes, was caused by a sense that he had to accomplish too much in too little time. "First," he says, "I had to make people believe that I'm not Andre 3000, that...
...will pray for you," she said. "I pray that you have a change of heart...
...meeting's end, several of the pastors said they wanted to pray for my healing. They placed their hands on my shoulder and called on God to hear their prayers on my behalf. I listened and loved it and said a prayer of my own: that I would have the courage to tell them what was really going on at the White House...
...great marching rows of young men chanting and flagellating themselves on Ashura, a Shi'ite mourning ritual. On these occasions, there were crowds, bright lights, and delicious things to eat; outside of these occasions, there was basically no fun permitted in public. In school, your teacher taught you to pray, you were forced to fast, and as the years passed, veiled women became the only reality you had ever known. At the same time, however, your family had a satellite TV dish, and you watched music videos and films from the West. You followed trends and learned that around...