Word: devoutely
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...Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, the devout Buddhist head of an overwhelm ingly Buddhist nation (TIME, Aug. 30), laid the cornerstone of a Student Chris tian Foundation building at Rangoon University. U Nu presented his hosts with a check for 5,000 kyats ($1,042), urged Burma's more than 18 million Buddhists and 600,000 Christians to do their "utmost to preserve religious tolerance...
...Brubeck does not feel that way because he is egotistical but because he takes his work with a deep, almost mystical seriousness. When he is up on the platform, with the tempo whipping about his ears and no notion where the next idea will come from, he has a devout confidence that it will come-and it always does...
...more than a century ago, educated Hindus deplore it, and law forbids it. But suttee, a widow's ritual suicide upon her husband's funeral pyre, still takes place occasionally in modern India, for the final test of wifely purity sends a shiver of admiration through the devout...
...devout Mormon who often kneels to pray before a major decision, Chairman Watkins added prayer to the rest of the committee's efforts. He prayed, frequently, that the committee would come to a just and unanimous decision. Said he: "I'm a praying man, and I believe my prayer has been answered...
Every Friday at noon from Cairo to Karachi, the thin nasal wail of muezzins crying, "There is no God but Allah," calls the faithful to the salat al-jami, the obligatory Friday service. The devout shutter their shops, rush through a thorough washing, and hurry into the mosque. Clad in dignity and finery, the imam ascends the pulpit, murmurs "salaam alei-kum," recites a text from the Koran, and begins a sermon which rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. So it has been for centuries...