And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned".
In other words, Smith must deliver a miracle - or at least a moonbeam.
"We need to bring together a coalition of Americans who want to believe again in the miracle of America," said Cruz, in a sermon-style address that attacked the Internal Revenue Service and condemned the employees of the Environmental Protection Agency as "locusts".
Back then though, the straight-talking painter-decorator dismissed the acting world as 'pish', so it was a small miracle that he bothered to pick up The Crucible at all.
So why is Northern Ireland's political miracle threatening to unravel?
And people know that promises of quick fixes and more spending this country can't afford, at times like this, are like the promises of a quack doctor selling a miracle cure".We do not offer that today.
Every time we detect one it's a minor miracle Howard Jones In the hunt for Sky and Hope, covert surveillance was no help.
Indeed, one factor behind the rise of the Nazi apologist, Jörg Haider, is the political paralysis resulting from the Austrian economic miracle.
"And what's happening today is just nothing short of a miracle".
The final passage, however, is also a flawless rendering of the real-life miracle of snowfall, a few light taps upon the window ushering in a flurry of some of the most beautiful prose ever printed.
