Word: devout
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...covering their tractors with canopies; according to one tortuous rabbinical interpretation, planting is legal if it is done inside an enclosure. Horrified by all such agonized evasions of Shemittah-and by the growing number of Jews who do not observe the sabbatical year at all-some of the devout prefer to buy their fruits and vegetables from Arab farmers or do without altogether...
Ayub Khan returned from a visit to Peking nearly as ecstatic as he had been about the U.S. Campaigns were launched to stamp out flies, a la China. Ayub Khan, a devout Moslem and a confirmed free enterpriser, praised the Red Chinese dedication to work...
Quintet Groups. Led by Said Ramadan, an exiled and devout Egyptian editor (he kneels for his daily prayers even when aboard an airliner), the brotherhood has been trying to over throw Cairo governments since the early days of King Farouk. Nasser tried to crush it out after one of its members fired eight shots at him during a mass rally in Alexandria in 1954, but despite the execution of six of the brothers and the imprisonment of thousands of others, the organization survived. Establishing headquarters in Geneva, it was soon distributing an anti-Nasser magazine throughout the Arab world, smuggling...
...wife you pick." A 65-year-old widowed Reb, or teacher, and 50 times a grandfather, Blau has been forced to surrender leadership of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox sect known as the Neturei Karta (Guardians of the City) for the scandal and sin of marrying shy, devout Ruth Ben-David, 45, who is not only a divorced woman but a convert from Catholicism as well...
Glinting Images. Hesse's hero is obviously himself: the son of a devout and prosperous burgher who in childhood encounters a strange companion named Max Demian. Demian is a boy, but he has "the face of a man, superior and purposeful, lucid and calm, with knowing eyes. Yet the face had something feminine about it too, and was somehow a thousand years old. He was different, like an animal or a spirit or a picture, unimaginably different from the rest...