Word: devoutedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...periodically bounce in & out of the majors. Jethroe has been around too long, six years in the Negro American League, a little more than a year with Montreal. With the Cleveland Buckeyes, he led the Negro circuit in batting and base-stealing in 1942, 1944 and 1945. A devout Roman Catholic, Sam wears a Saint Christopher medal on & off the diamond, is convinced that he will hit .300 in the majors because "I've been praying for it ... and too many people will be disappointed...
While New Delhi spoke, Nepal's Prime Minister Maharaja Mohun Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 64, a devout feudalist,*was journeying from the little Himalayan kingdom (6,000,000 pop.; 54,000 sq. mi.) to republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed...
...Lehmann fans the performance in Manhattan's Town Hall had the air of a religious rite. They sat devout and mouse-quiet while the singer, dressed in sober black, her chestnut hair caught back in a plain bun, leaned gently against the curve of the piano. Without properties, costume or conspicuous gesture, Soprano Lehmann recreated the aging Viennese beauty with her oldtime fire and finesse...
...references made to the Irish immigrants in my speech ... described the acute and unfortunate tensions between the older residents and the immigrants of 80 or 100 years ago. Intolerant people called the immigrants dirty, ignorant and miserable," and the fact that the newcomers were devout Catholics, called 'Papists' by the militant Protestant Yankees, simply fed the fires of racial cleavage...
...asthma victim, Prasad leads a Spartan life. His day begins at 3 a.m. with yoga exercises, the reading of the Ramayana, and the symbolic spinning that characterizes a devout follower of Gandhi...