Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the daylight hours of fast, less pious Moslems still sold dripping sheep carcasses, eggs, fruit and vegetables in the stewing narrow streets of the Old City. Arab merchants, sitting cross-legged on bolts of cloth, still tried to entice customers in the bazaars of King David's Street. But the vendors were wary and sharp-eyed. Any sudden movement of police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots...
...sympathetic M.P.s and the Colonial Office. One of the M.P.s quoted scholarly books to the effect that human blood had not been ceremonially used in the Gold Coast for a century, and pointed out that some of the accused were Christians who would not have been tolerated at a pious pagan ceremony. The Colonial Office icily retorted that human blood was still preferred and that nominal Christianity means nothing to African ritual phlebotomists...
...estimates of Franklin Roosevelt by his friendly contemporaries (now under way) will be Phase II of his rendezvous with history. They will join a sizable bookshelf of Rooseveltiana, about 100 books and scores of pamphlets published up to his death in April 1945, ranging from Liberty League squeals to pious campaign biographies...
...hoped to find refuge in their fields of public opinion, industry, finance -blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...
West Europe, Ltd. Connolly's less agreeable qualities include a tone of pettish portentousness into which he falls when writing of philosophical or religious matters that he can taste but cannot fathom. At Eton little Cyril preserved a pious air in chapel, though reading his blackbound Petronius instead of the prayer book; in more adult ways he has continued...