Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...General Creighton Abrams Jr., 56, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam who previously indicated no religious preference, has joined the Roman Catholic Church. Meanwhile, back at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird dedicated a small room in the Aring as a place for meditation and prayer. "In a sense, this ceremony marks the completion of the Pentagon," said Secretary Laird. "Peace is the business of this building...
Like animated scarecrows in black robes and bamboo hats, the eight monks bend in prayer around a sacred fire. The smoke is lost in the black pall gushing from a nearby paper mill. Suddenly, the heftiest of the mendicants bellows in a throaty bass: "In the name of God, know that thou hast erred by desecrating this pure land, by acting more ferociously than a hungry tiger in devouring the lives of living beings. Curse be on thee, polluting industrialist! May God crack thine head to seven pieces and banish thee once and for all to inferno...
...uttering an occasional phrase. When Little Big Man announces that he has a wife, Old Lodge Skins inquires: "Does she show a pleasant enthusiasm when you mount her?" The question seems not lascivious, but full of paternal concern. When he prepares to die, the ancient Human Being chants a prayer and stretches supine before his Maker. Result: nothing. His answer: "Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't," gives new credence to the speculation that the Indians are one of the lost tribes of Israel...
...first thing Pattakos did on arriving in Samarina was to greet the local policemen and the village priest. He went straight to the church to pay his respects. The Orthodox Church plays an essential role in the junta's image. The prayer books used by school children in Greece have a picture of Christ on the first page and the official emblem-the phoenix rising out of the flame-on the opposite page...
...Since the Pilgrims believed that a baby born on a Sunday had been conceived on a Sunday, preachers thundered when a woman gave birth on a Sunday. One preacher stopped such harangues after his own wife gave birth to twins during the Sunday afternoon period he regularly reserved for prayer and meditation...