Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacifists, perpetually broke, with a Franciscan disdain for material possessions, the Catholic Workers conduct four farms, maintain Houses of Hospitality for the poor in 23 U. S. cities. Last week in Pittsburgh a Catholic Worker, Father Charles Owen Rice, did something he had long wanted to do. With the blessing of his bishop, he gave up the modest but secure post of an assistant pastor-$33 a month, plus room & board-and became priest of a flophouse, his salary to be whatever he could scare...
...important not to let one's will "be completely subjugated by the cat's lordly indifference and disdain of all other foods offered it," claimed Dr. Gerry B. Schnelle at the Medical School yesterday...