Word: devouting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the past five years at an average rate of one per day, economic victims of inflation and a declining supply of nuns and priests available to teach for low salaries. Strangely enough, the schools' plight has converted many traditional opponents of state aid for church schools into devout advocates. The reasons have nothing to do with religious persuasion, but only with hard economic fact. The parochial schools once educated as many as 6,000,000 children, about 11% of the nation's school-age students, at comparatively little cost to the taxpayer. But the recent closing...
...always so disdainful of authoritarian belief. As a poor Brahman in India, he was rigidly versed in orthodox Hindu observance. His father was not only a devout Brahman but an ardent Theosophist as well. When Krishnamurti was only 14 and already a budding mystic, he came to the attention of Annie Besant, onetime intimate of Shaw and then head of the Theosophical Society.* She adopted the young Indian and proclaimed him the incarnation, or avatar, of the "World Teacher," the divine spirit that in Hindu mythology periodically takes human form (as in Buddha) to lead men to truth. She sent...
...Sadat was never trusted with a really sensitive job. At one point he was named editor of the party newspaper Al Gomhouria, and he filled it with tirades against U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the "felonious and stupid horde" of British and French government figures. A devout Moslem who prays so often and so intensely that he has developed a mark on his forehead where it touches the prayer mat, Sadat was later made secretary-general of the Islamic Congress, an organization of Islamic nations. Because he was an avid Ping Pong player, he was named chairman...
...Taiwan the island people still cling to their ancient folk religion, a heady mixture of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian beliefs and practices. None of the old gods and goddesses is more popular than the gentle Matsu, patroness of fishermen and seafarers. According to legend, Matsu was a devout 9th century girl who acquired divine powers at her early death. Pioneer Chinese settlers credited her with protecting them on their trip across the Taiwan Strait 350 years...
Once arrived at the Moores' house in County Down, Sarah finds the family rife with potential martyrs: Colum Moore, an English professor trying to resist public political involvement; his devout, naively nationalistic wife, carrying their eighth child and breeding vulnerability; her sister, Una, an angry activist spouting Marx and Marcuse who lives like a nun among grotesque religious relics. Even Sarah's old lover has become a marked man as a Protestant journalist championing the Catholic cause...