Word: devouting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Business and worked his way up to controller of IBM World Trade Corp. before taking the same job at Xerox in 1967. There, he soon moved from internal controls to long-range financial planning and finally, in 1972, to the international area. Away from work, Flavin is a devout Catholic who enjoys golf and skiing with his wife and two children. He is extremely popular with colleagues for his direct manner and insistence on "teamwork rather than the one-man approach"; most of all, though, they admire his ability to reduce hard business problems to their essentials...
...make-I had always been a deeply religious person and attended church. I have a guardian angel theory, and I had felt during the program, and still genuinely feel, that the guardian angel had a purpose for me in being there. Bert (her FBI contact) is a devout Roman Catholic, as is Catherine Hearst and to a lesser extent Randy Hearst. I was a devout Episcopalian, but there really isn't that much difference. When Bert asked me about my participation in the program, I explained that it was partly my religious feelings and he accepted...
...sleepless nights. Randolph Hearst, by nature not given to quick and decisive action, managed to keep calm while awaiting, then struggling to comply with, the demands of the S.L.A. Catherine, his wife, genteel daughter of a Georgia telephone executive, was dumbfounded by the violence and noticeably more anxious. A devout Roman Catholic, she spent many hours in prayer. In their helplessness, the parents began to clutch at straws: two psychics were invited to the Hearsts' house in suburban Hillsborough and ran their fingers over a map of Northern California seeking "impulses" of Patty's whereabouts. Searching...
...classroom buildings. You can usually wake up in the Yard on the hour, and make it to class by five past--a good thing if you like to sleep late. But the walk to the Quad can be really pleasant, especially in the fall and spring, and many devout 'Cliffe dwellers say they like the feeling of walking home after school, away from the noise and bustle of the College. A shuttle bus runs between the campuses at night, and if you miss it, the University Police will give you a lift, since the walk through the Common...
...policy purposes were committed by the 11th-century Moslem sect of Assassins, founded by the fanatically ambitious Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder. His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons...