Word: devouting
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...newest member of the Corporation, Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, also has the lowest profile. He came to Harvard as a junior, having grown up in St. Louis, and transferred from Fordham College in 1950. A devout Catholic and strong family man, he majored in economics here and was a member of the Catholic Club...
...Gulf of Mexico. The roar of the bands washes up the Mississippi to St. Louis, maybe. The soul, spirit and stomach of the World's Fair that started its six-month run in New Orleans a week ago is the city itself: brooding and flamboyant, raucous and urbane, devout and dissolute. The fair stirs together the razzmatazz of Mardi Gras, the harmony of New Orleans' elegant old buildings and the French-Spanish-African-Italian-Irish-German-Creole-Cajun gumbo gusto of its everyday, every-night street life. With a generous infusion of pavilions and exhibitions from the rest...
...speak up and Shannon's quintessential insider reputation is a bit worrisome. Shannon actually lets it get around that he does things like share a late-night cigar with Rep. Danny Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Rostenkowski, to say the least, is not your most devout liberal...
While traveling abroad, devout Muslims must still say prayers five times a day while facing the holy city of Mecca. But a long trip with frequent stops could make them lose their bearings and point them in the wrong direction for worship. To prevent such a problem, Dallas Inventor George Shrime has applied science to religion and designed an electronic prayer guide. It points the way toward Mecca from any of 200 locations, beeps at worship time and displays the opening verses of the call to prayer on a liquid-crystal screen...
...strict and domineering. "We always had trouble getting Gary to come out and play," a childhood friend, Duane Hoobing, was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal last week. "He was lonely lots of times. His mother never let him get too involved with other kids." A devout member of the Church of the Nazarene, Mrs. Hartpence enforced the church's injunctions against smoking, liquor, going to the movies and slow dancing. She was also oddly restless, moving Hart and his adopted sister Nancy from one cheap rented house to another, while Husband Carl drifted from...