Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crusade-it is not necessary to mention The Methodist Church; we are not organizing another 'pressure group' but expressing the convictions of Christian citizens. Above all, do not copy anything from the Crusade literature-do not use the Crusade phrases- avoid trite phrases and Biblical, 'pious,' poetic, figurative and similar expressions. . . . Stick to the simple propositions: we are against isolationism; we favor collaboration; we want a fair, just, righteous and lasting peace...
...Soviet Union Government, which two months ago resuscitated the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), last week bowed toward Mecca. Though the Bolsheviks have carried on an unflagging struggle with the more pious believers among their Mohammedan citizens, a Moslem congress has been convened at Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Republic of Uzbek. The congress chose as leader of Russia's Mohammedans 82-year-old Ichan Babachan Abdumadchiktchanow. It also called upon all Mohammedans in the Uzbek, Tajik, Turkomen, Kirghiz and Kazak Soviet Socialist Republics to "wage a merciless fight against the German usurpers...
...book hovers like a force more powerful than the will of the strong-willed characters. Long before it has broken out, obscure riots and inexplicably venomous slanders twist personal and social relations. Example: Hanif, Madame de St. Remy's servant (he is as dissolute as she is pious), returns from his sweetheart to find a group of men blocking his path. '"Do you spend the night beside the road, my brothers?' he inquired. . . . and for a moment they confronted him in a silence whose menace was unmistakable. . . . Then they closed in behind him. ... A short heavy stick...
...four days, balding, humorless Post Office Attorney Calvin Hassell, a pious man and a Boy Scout worker, led witnesses on a sexy jaunt through a collection of ribald material culled from eleven Esquires. Spectators had the most...
Realism. Behind this hope loomed harsh realities. Foreign Commissar Molotov can be expected to shy away from pious phrases, present Russia's views and demands in hard, unequivocal words...