Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Premier Thakin Nu, a devout Buddhist, whom Burmese call "the man with the rosary" because he daily prays for peace, once more called for a halt to the "evil cult" of gun rule. In Rangoon, jeeps and Studebakers owned by Thakin Nu's partisans hustled voters through the driving rain to polling booths. Voting proceeded smoothly. The only untoward incident: in four of Rangoon's 106 polling places, poll watchers threw out all ballots because of a technical oversight-election officials had failed to stamp them with the required rhinoceros seal...
...never got a wide one. He became a U.S. citizen, played engagements now & then with U.S. orchestras, faithfully gave Carnegie Hall recitals every season. A quiet but genial man who liked to entertain friends with card tricks, he had to settle musically for the adulation of a cult...
...hearts most of us are devotees of the cult of the incomplete-sectarianism. The Christ in one church often categorically denies the Christ in a neighboring church. It would be ludicrous were it not tragic . . . When Christians accept Christ as supreme, they cannot but walk as companions and friends . . . Let us keep the purpose of unity firm in our hearts, and look upon all Christians as brothers beloved. It is thus by practicing unity we shall gain unity...
...quip pointed up the fact that after eight months of war in Korea, the civilian shortages predicted by Washington's hair-shirt cult had not materialized. The booming auto industry, which three months ago dropped thousands of workers because of a materials pinch, had now rehired most of them. Last week the automakers turned out 168,000 units, 40% above the 1950 period when Chrysler was closed by a strike. Building was nearly 25% above the February 1950 figure. And in January business inventories jumped $2 billion to $63 billion despite peak retail sales...
...cult of the average can claim at least one victory along the Charles. Winthrop House has a balanced student body, a cross-section of the Harvard community; it is the middle path--few backslappers and almost no "esthetic types...