Word: lax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then I remember that I must not grow lax, and I pray for the union of all Rumanians; I pray that through my suffering I may be the subterranean mine which blows up the wall of division between Rumanians, so that all Rumanians shall be brothers, and the church shall be freed promptly and completely...
...ever really shaken the firm. In Catholic Ireland, the Protestant Guinnesses were accused of signing an anti-Catholic petition, and Guinness was boycotted as "Protestant Porter." Explained a contemporary satirist: "A learned doctor has analyzed the anti-popery porter [and found it produces] a disposition to bowels particularly lax, an inclination to pravity and to singing praises of the Lord through the nose." The trouble was, he said, that Guinness had its porter makers "mash up stereotype Protestant Bibles and Methodist hymn books . . . thus impregnating, in the act of fermentation, the volatile parts of the porter with the pure ethereal...
When Finance Minister Bosch took office, there was a deficit of $18 million; as he stepped out, Cuba had its largest surplus on record - more than $15 million. The secret of Bosch's success was uncommon ministerial honesty and unswerving drive to collect taxes uncollected by lax predecessors. "Everyone will pay," he announced, "without exception or privilege. I'll send them bills...
...Catholics who live in cities have frequented the sacraments in larger numbers than ever. On feast days, families of the faithful have come in from the countryside to Mass, sometimes walking 15 or more miles in thin cotton shoes over narrow paths and rough roads. An unexpected number of lax Catholics .. . have returned to more fervent and integral service...
Bray's score in the opening minutes of the next period revived the lax Crimson defense. Bray tied up the game when he drove in a rebound from Jim Colt with two minutes to play...