Word: prays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...airplanes where the overhead bins open with gay abandon at the slightest bump, where the reading lights flicker with a hypnotic frequency and where the food, insofar as it can be detected on the plate, is seldom warmed above the temperature of the ambient stratosphere. One can only pray in these circumstances that the subcontractor in charge of the cabin was not also entrusted with engine maintenance. As for the crucial issue of when to go up and when to go down: we read of air-traffic-control computers so antique that they still run on vacuum tubes, and monitored...
...becoming the apostle of bipartisanship has the Republicans on the defensive, and polling shows that the country likes his program (no surprise, as polls had already told him it would be popular). At the National Prayer Breakfast two weeks ago, Clinton found room for improvement, exhorting the crowd to "pray for the people in public office, that we can rid ourselves of this toxic atmosphere of cynicism and embrace with joy and gratitude this phenomenal opportunity and responsibility before us." Which is just another way of praying that the past won't come back to haunt...
...local black newspaper. "She had been forgotten by the mass media," Dyson says. "It's not a big story. This kind of thing goes on in housing projects all over the country." Only as some local community and church leaders got involved and Louis Farrakhan came to pray at her bedside did Girl X's plight come to the attention of the mainstream Chicago press. "The Cabrini-Green rape would be widely known had the victim been white," wrote reporter Lee Bey in the Chicago Sun-Times on January 25. "Then it would have been news. Some legislator would have...
...Crimson luck in the upcoming year. It has taken me four years to realize that a campus publication cannot thrive without the requisite feedback from the students it serves. While I am fully aware that most of these ideas many not be realized in my last semester here, I pray that one day in the near future the Crimson will be free, diverse, on-line and an even more critical facet of student life. If the Crimson wants to be read, as Ms. Schaffer affirmed, then let it continue to make itself readable and accessible. --Sozi Sozinho...
...those Catch-22's that's normal for Harvard. You have to pray you get into one of these classes, and if you don't get in, you don't graduate," Kargman said...