Word: prayerful
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...confess that we ourselves do not regard such acts as intrinsically morally offensive. We confess that we do find it offensive to conceal an attack on a particular--in our view courageous, intelligent and generous-hearted--individual in an act of prayer...
Clinton's prayer was answered a day later, when the Star, a supermarket tabloid, revived old charges by Larry Nichols, a former Arkansas state employee fired for misusing his official telephone to assist the Nicaraguan ^ contras. In 1990 Nichols named five women Clinton allegedly slept with, but all five denied the rumors again last week, and Nichols himself was recently quoted as saying, "I have my own agenda. ((Clinton)) roasted me" and now "everything I do will be done to run him out of the state." Having "it come out again now is fine," says a Clinton aide...
Dartmouth cruised into the third period with a 6-2 lead, having waltzed around Harvard players enroute to a five goal second period. Although Harvard didn't seem to have a prayer of muscling its way back into the game, the Crimson impressively surged to a 6-6 tie with 1:45 remaining in the third period, exhibiting its most aggressive play of the season...
...this very day, whenever I go shopping, I utter a brief prayer and with great anticipation, check the ingredients on a Twinkie wrapping hoping that the company would get rid of the "may contain vegetable and/or animal shortening" clause and shorten it to just "vegetable shortening." I have yet to be so lucky...
Will the rise of nationalism lead to anti-Semitism and racism? Yes, but standing at the funeral for three victims of the coup last August (one of whom was Jewish), I saw a crowd of 100,000 listen to the Kaddish, the Hebrew prayer of mourning. Just last winter, the reading of my translation of Bernstein's Kaddish at the Moscow conservatory seemed extraordinary. But what about the demons of democracy who sell anti-Semitic literature like Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in Moscow underpasses...