Word: devoutely
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...longtime membership in the expensive Riviera Country Club in Coral Gables, which reputedly barred blacks and Jews until a bylaws change last summer prohibited religious and racial discrimination. Ryskamp's membership went unnoticed in 1986, when the Senate confirmed his judgeship for Florida's Southern District. Last week the devout Presbyterian elder resigned from the club, but foes were unappeased. "The federal appeals courts usually have the last word in civil rights cases," says Johnnie R. McMillian, president of the Miami-Dade N.A.A.C.P. "Elevation of Judge Ryskamp would reduce the President's promise of racial fairness to a cruel hoax...
...devout Muslim openly admits that the Gulf Crisis has tuned his college experience so far into a lonely one. He has difficulty staying in tune with the papers, lectures and parties that fill many first-year students' lives. His only close friend, he says, is Stephen W. Gauster '92, the other co-president of Students for a Free Kuwait...
Gorbachev comes across as a brilliant bumpkin from cossack country who could not have made it without Raisa, a doctor of Marxist theory and, in the Sheehy version, the real "prophet of perestroika." How two devout party members could have climbed to the top of the Communist apparatus while nurturing heretical ideas is the subject that gives the author her central thesis of how Gorbachev operates...
...three women, Chamorro is the epitome of the contemporary queen regent: benign, motherly and devout. As President, she is still more likely to open her mouth in prayer than in political double-talk. Showing up for a fiesta at the town of Juigalpa, Chamorro was asked by the local parish priest to say a few words. She replied, "What better words than the Lord's Prayer" and proceeded to lead the crowd in the Paternoster. With just a high school education, she leans for major decisions on what she calls her "sixth sense...
...rehabilitate devastated nations, as Aquino has found out. In a land of political victims, she came to power as the most famous victim of Philippine dictator Marcos, who is popularly assumed to have ordered the murder of her husband. Many saw her as a veritable mater dolorosa. As devout a Roman Catholic as Chamorro, Aquino was irreproachable at the beginning of her presidency. The fearsome insurgency, led by the communist New People's Army, lost steam in the face of her saintliness. The military plotters who threatened to overthrow her were seen as thugs...