Word: devoutedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kissing the Kaaba. The focus of the hajj is the Kaaba, an almost cubical block of stone 45 ft. high, which Moslems believe was built by Abraham. This year, for the first time, it was illumined by neon lights. Mingling with the devout, Naguib performed the seven traditional circuits of the Kaaba, and managed to get close enough to kiss it, as millions had done before him. Outside Mecca, on the plain of Arafat, he arrived at the immense tent city which springs up for one day and vanishes again at nightfall. He sacrificed two rams and made...
...mother and sisters; the people of Assisi had never seen the fair-haired Clare so beautiful or so finely dressed. They never saw her again. Late the next night she stole from her father's palace by a back door and made her way to Francis and his devout followers, who met her with torches...
...whole-63% of Kinsey's male subjects went to college (national average: 15%) and 75% of the women (national average: 13%). The 37% of U.S. women who do not go be yond grade school are represented by only 3% in Kinsey's sample.* Some religious groups, notably devout Roman Catholics and orthodox Jews, are underrepresented...
...devout Methodist father had expressly forbidden him to read the book, but 13-year-old William Ernest Hocking of Joliet, Ill. could not resist the temptation. A usually obedient boy, he sneaked Herbert Spencer's First Principles out to the haymow, read with horrified fascination the book's conclusion that whatever Supreme Power might lie behind the universe, it "is utterly inscrutable." When he had finished, young Hocking realized that "father was right: the damage was done. I had started out life with a perfectly sound brand of orthodox religion. Now, I had lost...
...mission station grows so famed that it loses its Christian simplicity, and becomes to David what railroads became to his father. David dreads Indian independence. If the British raj is booted out, who will protect his lifework from destruction? It is now his turn to be horrified when his devout son Ted walks out on his father's seminary and goes to live among Indians in a village of mud huts...