Word: prays
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...shuddering to a stop, he slams it into reverse and guns the engine. Seconds later he takes his foot off the gas and turns the steering wheel hard. Tires screaming, the car spins around once more, but is again facing the roadblock. There is no choice now but to pray, step on the gas and try to ram his way through...
...press conference where Ronald Reagan was holding forth in favor of biblical creationism, and so most of them missed Smith's address to 5,000 in the main arena. Said Smith: "It's interesting to me at great political battles how you have a Protestant to pray and a Catholic to pray, and then you have a Jew to pray. With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew. For how in the world can God hear the prayer of a man who says that Jesus Christ...
Last spring, city officials were talking sweet--"we hope the University will demonstrate its civic mindedness"; "We can only pray Harvard will be a good neighbor...
...himself; the revolutionary communist, however screwed up, wants for others. The Klan has a vision of the past, the RCP of the future. People can be excused for their fantasies about the future, for no proof exists that they are wrong. So scorn the Klan, hate the Klan, pray that they go away. But when you pass the RCP people in the Square, understand them, tell whoever you're with that their hearts are in the right place, give them a quarter for the goddamn newspaper...
...long since buried." Farther north along the fence at Unterbreizbach, however, there is a cemetery on the eastern side next to the border; a grim watchtower soars amid the headstones. As Easterners bury their dead under the scrutiny of border guards, West Germans gather to watch, pray and lay wreaths against the border markers. "We don't know who they are," says a local butcher, "but our hearts go out to them anyway. Don't forget, we are all Germans, after all." The wreaths are always gone the next day. East German patrols have scooped them up overnight...