Word: devoutly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer to a major question: "Which candidate do you hate?" ten out of the eleven immediately snapped "Teddy." The eleventh, a devout Christian, claimed that his religious principles prevented him from hating anybody, but said he'd roast in Hell before voting for Teddy Kennedy. The results are noteworthy because of the vague wording of the question. Since I asked not "which Massachusetts senatorial candidate" but merely "which candidate" one must conclude that of all the men who are running for state and local offices throughout the country, none is more hated at Harvard than Teddy Kennedy...
...Devout Christians do not hate but may have violent dislikes...
...devout Moslem, Nasution is antiCommunist, but has been prevented from really cracking down on Indonesia's Reds by Sukarno, who repeatedly warns against "Communist phobia." Only when the Communists use violence does Sukarno permit the army to intervene. Moreover, many of Indonesia's most ardent anti-Reds are in jail under Nasution's orders because they advocated more freedom than he thought was necessary...
...kind was intolerable in a Rockefeller. Soon after his tenth birthday, he wanted a toy sailboat and took it upon himself to order one from a carpenter. When his father found out about it, he deducted the $4 cost from David's allowance over a period of months. A devout Baptist, John D. Jr. neither smoked nor drank and did everything in his power to impress upon his sons the evils of both practices. (David enjoys a martini or two before dinner, but has never taken up smoking...
These high-salaried, early-morning moonlighters were devout Mormons helping to build a new $600,000 chapel for a ward (parish) in Federal Heights, a prosperous Salt Lake City suburb where homes cost up to $85,000 and the average income is about $13,000 a year. By Mormon rule, the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contribute half of the chapel's cost; the ward's members must pay the rest. The Mormons of Federal Heights have collected most of their cash quota, but they decided to supplement it by taking advantage...