Word: devoutly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother and father, Socialite Winthrop Rutherfurd, were wed in 1920 in a simple Roman Catholic ceremony in a private home, the unusual location being permitted because one of Widower Rutherfurd's five chil dren by his previous marriage had recently died. Lucy, her daughter said, was a devout Catholic, a fact that, together with F.D.R.'s political ambitions, is said to have kept her and F.D.R. from marrying. After Lucy's marriage, Mrs. Knowles added, she and F.D.R. "saw each other perhaps once a year...
...policies confined to his home for years, forbid newspapers to quote him on any subject. Backing up the laws is a tough, efficient police force, plus a military and paramilitary organization specifically trained to put down insurrection. Top cop is Justice Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster, 50, a devout Nationalist whose background includes two years in a South African internment camp for pro-Nazi activities...
Tearful on TV. What Britain's press bannered next day was a surprising Cabinet switch: Economics Minister George Brown, 51, the No. 2 man in the Labor Party, changed places with Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, 59. Brown, a devout believer in economic expansion, had tried to resign four weeks ago when Wilson made the decision that the pound could only be saved by a drastic dose of deflation. Wilson talked him into staying on until the bill was assured of passage. Then Wilson rewarded Brown with the job he had asked for when Labor came to power two years...
...Financed by a $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the four-year study was conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center and edited by two of its sociologists: the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, a Catholic priest, and Peter H. Rossi, a self-styled "devout agnostic...
Although he is a devout Roman Catholic, Bréhant seriously questions whether Jesus could have lasted anything like three hours on the Cross, and argues that hardly ever in Western art is there a "medically accurate and scientifically serious portrayal of the event." The reason, he explains, is that the Cross itself did not become an object of veneration for pious Christians until about the 5th century-more than 100 years after Constantine abolished crucifixion from the Roman Empire as a method of capital punishment...