Word: devout
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...them saw the devout Christian. The other saw the Lorrainer. Schuman is both...
...this time the magnet of politics held the anti-Dev chips together. The victors elected unassuming 56-year-old John Aloysius Costello, K.C., Fine Gael frontbencher, as Eire's new Premier. To the comfort of tradition, Mr. Costello (accent on first syllable) was a devout Roman Catholic and family man (five children...
...Results." Riccardo Lombardi was born 40 years ago in Naples to a devout, middle-class family from Piedmont. He began preaching while still a student at the University of Padua (he estimates that he has talked to a round total of 4,000,000 people). His favorite authors are the two great Catholic mystics, Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, and in his tiny, bare, blue-walled room in Rome's Via Ripetta he spends most of his time praying. During his travels he tries to keep himself always "in communion with...
...complex of calculations and risks; a single muddleheaded moment might have ruined him. Despite the author's simplicity, the reader gradually becomes aware of his extraordinary energy and coolness. But the book is not only an adventure story but a family history, told by a devout and loving father. Remy flouted the Gestapo for over a year and a half with a wife and four children on his hands. And he learned his job as he went along...
...Communists," he said, "are devout followers of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin, desiring a violent revolution. This would not include the lunatic fringe, parlor pinks, and liberal intellectuals, who may want to change the government by constitutional means...