Word: devoutely
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...more about what his ordeal would mean to his family than what it would do to him. His own spirit, which he showed from the moment he joined the Air Force after graduating from Kenyon College in 1957, was more than enough to sustain him. Brought up in a devout Episcopal family, Olmstead made the most of a Catholic Bible surprisingly provided by his jailers. He read Scriptures and spent hours making up sermons. "Often in his letters home," said his brother, Dermatologist Brent Olmstead, "he'd include a little prayer he'd written especially...
...crucial role in Nigeria's advance to independence, Britain has heaped him with honors and his native admirers hail him as "The Black Rock of Nigeria." (As a devout Moslem, the title he prizes most is that of alhaji-one who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.) In his drive to lift his backward land into the 20th century, Balewa's piercing eyes exude calm and sureness, and he rarely speaks in anger. "He is," says a longtime British acquaintance, "perhaps the perfect Victorian gentleman. He simply will not be rushed...
...eating as much as they like and still lose weight, so long as they drink their Metrecal. Even those who know better are sometimes weak in will power. Office workers in one San Francisco place recently heard the telltale sound of a crinkling candy-bar wrapper, found a devout but spineless dieter surreptitiously gobbling chocolate and cookies at her desk...
...Prince Karim urges his followers to show loyalty to the countries where they live and to "open up a bit" with their neighbors. In East Africa, he threw the excellent Ismaili hospitals and schools open to blacks, and anti-Ismaili feeling has-considerably subsided. But he is a devout Moslem and is determined that his people shall not be swallowed up by the majorities around them. To this end, the serious young bachelor has traveled 264,000 miles in three years, sparing little time for the beautiful women and good life on the Riviera that both his grandfather...
...case of non-Christians, Pastor Brooks has no quarrel with his benevolent deceit: "There is no merit in trying to force a Christian death on non-Christian life . . . But why must such a death be turned into needless defeat in the case of the faithful? When a devout man demands to know the truth s othat he can face death victoriously, must we join his family in pretending this burning pain in his abdomen will disappear?For one thing, such a sufferer may feel cut off from his family, unable to admit or what he suspects...