Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holy anger, and pious grief, He solemnly cursed that rascally thief! He cursed him at board, he cursed...
King Juda, the Paramount Chief of Bikini, and his gentle, easy-living and pious (missionary-converted) people had gracefully consented to move when the Navy told them that a monstrous Thing would blast their island. Rongerik, some 100 miles to the southeast, was just as large, just as green as Bikini, and it had more coconuts and pandanus fruit. By last week Rongerik's huts had tin roofs and wooden floors; there was a big water cistern, a radio, a fine council house. But Rongerik was not home...
...props in the way. A good many of the fur-wrapped natives in the Diamond Horseshoe will be there under the same grim or triumphal compulsion that gets them to church once a year for Easter services. A good many of the gallerygoers will clump up 119 steps like pious martyrs, sure that they are the only ones in the house that really like the stuff...
...world, he asked, "Should we have really expected a totally different post-war era?" But for Mr. Conant, realization of the hard cold facts of the atomic age is only half the battle, for he believes that America cannot develop as a free nation either by subscribing to the pious faith in the lasting effects of revolution, or escaping into the enervating and oftentimes reactionary cynicism. Rather than the sentimentalist or the cynic, he calls for a hard-boiled idealist "whose mode of action is in terms of the calculated risk and who, in order to calculate that risk, prefers...
Lowells of one kind or another-learned, stately, pious, peculiar-have inhabited Boston and its environs almost as long as any other white men, and left their mark more indelibly than most. There have been Lowells commercial enough to take fortunes out of distilleries and cotton mills, Lowells august enough to serve as trustees of the Boston Athenaeum, Lowells literate enough to be represented on many a U.S. bookshelf...