Word: jesuitically
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Before coming to Harvard in 1989, Hankins, a native of Detroit, attended Grosse Point Academy and the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, where he was co-valedictorian...
During a football game at Fordham University, the band’s half-time announcer told the crowd that tuition at the Jesuit-run school was “going down like an altar...
...Phetchaburi does not have the grand hotels and great beaches that traditionally attract tourists. Instead, its charm lies in the streets little changed since the 1800s, and a collection of temples that rank among Thailand's most diverse. Murals at Wat Ko Kaeo Sutharam show a Westerner (an early Jesuit missionary most likely) attending an ancient Buddhist ceremony. That may be the only Western face you see in Phetchaburi these days. Which is strange, considering that in its heyday, the hilltop palace complex was the hip place to swing in old Siam. Now, only the monkeys...
...French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in what was then Indochina, Congress and President Eisenhower promulgated a bill to add the words under God to the Pledge of Allegiance. Oppose Godless Communism with Godful Americanism. By then I had converted to Catholicism and left public school for a Jesuit school where we began class not with the pledge but with a Hail Mary--a mood setter that, like the pledge, lost its force through unthinking repetition...
...French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in what was then Indochina, Congress and President Eisenhower promulgated a bill to add the words under God to the Pledge of Allegiance. Oppose Godless Communism with Godful Americanism. By then I had converted to Catholicism and left public school for a Jesuit school where we began class not with the pledge but with a Hail Mary - a mood setter that, like the pledge, lost its force through unthinking repetition...