Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...
...Techniques. Polite but cool, Committeemen fidgeted for a day, then prepared to pigeonhole the wartime prohibition bill introduced by South Carolina's bony, pious Joseph R. Bryson. But they could not lay away the still vigorous prohibition movement quite so easily...
...Green measure, which would have set up a super-powerful Federal War Ballot Commission. On the side, they suspected that servicemen would vote for the Commander in Chief. Republicans stubbornly fought beside conservative Democrats for States' rights.* The anti-New Deal coalition killed the bill and substituted a pious, meaningless resolution which threw the whole problem back at the States. On their side, GOPsters succeeded in delivering a humiliating defeat to the Administration...
Like their pious forebears in Germany and Russia, they are hard-working and puritanical (cards and dancing are frowned on). But they long ago flagged and climbed aboard the U.S. train. Their German religion has given way to Congregationalism. Few of the young generation can speak a German word. Whenever a Warden boy leaves for the war there is a typical American party (coffee, food, Farmer in the Dell, Drop the Handkerchief) in the school basement. Their Americanization is ably abetted by the high-school faculty, which puts great emphasis on the history of the U.S. and the State...
...longer the Senate held the Lucas-Green bill, the more it seemed to tick like a bomb. Several members struggled courageously to extract the fuse. Finally, at week's end, the whole infernal-looking thing was thrown out. In its place, the Senate passed what amounted to a pious resolution: let the individual states conduct elections, as always. Let them arrange for their own absentee soldiers to vote. (This arrangement, followed in the 1942 elections, was a dismal flop...