Word: devouting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conversion from devout Catholicism to equally devout Communism grew out of the extreme poverty she saw as a child in the Basque mining country. "I know the terrible pain of days without bread, winters without fire, and children dead for lack of money for medicines," she wrote in her 1966 autobiography, They Shall Not Pass. After joining the fledgling Communist Party in 1920, she rose rapidly in party ranks, eventually becoming one of 17 Communist deputies in the Republican parliament. But her personal life was scarred by tragedy. She has long been estranged from her husband, Julian Ruiz...
Chances are the two men should get along well. Among other things, Sadat is as devout a Moslem as Carter is a Baptist. Moreover, both are small-town boys who talk about the inspiration they still gain from their home towns. Sadat's Plains is a Nile Delta village named Mit Abou Alkoum (the Place of the Heap), which Sadat has called "an unfailing source of morality, common sense and perspective...
Seed on Good Earth. Leach's reputation as a bridge between Eastern and Western craft traditions-once a Zen Buddhist, he is now a devout member of the Baha'i faith-has helped to turn his St. Ives studio into a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of younger potters over the years. But the number of students working there remains limited to eleven. In an age of mechanical reproduction and mass production, the "Seventh Kenzan"-as some Japanese potters affectionately call him-has played a major part in preserving the old authority of the human hand. Above...
...said to Khaalis. "I would like you, my brother, to join in a prayer to Allah that it will be a day of compassion, honor and bravery." Khaalis protested that the place where he was appeared "unclean." This remark convinced the negotiators that Khaalis was a devout Muslim who would pray only in clean surroundings, as Islamic tradition prescribes. Now there was hope, for a source of leverage existed-the compassion cited in the Koran...
...election campaign wound to its climax last week, Mrs. Gandhi was desperately trying to win back some unexpected-and highly significant-defectors: farmers and villagers who live in the countryside of northern India, a densely populated area that city people have scornfully dubbed the "Cow Belt" because devout Hindu farmers do not slaughter the sacred animals. Big blocks of parliamentary seats from the Cow Belt have been crucial to all five of the Congress Party's national electoral victories since 1947. But while accompanying the candidates on a swing through the region, which includes Mrs. Gandhi's constituency...