Word: pious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were charged with mailing "nonmailable matter . . . which gives . . . information on how and by what means abortion may be produced." What prompted the indictment was an article in the March 1956 issue of Confidential headed: "The Pill That Ends Unwanted Pregnancy." Though written in the magazine's characteristically pious style ("Beware the Newest Abortion Menace"), the article was a sort of do-it-yourself commentary on a new antileukemia drug (retail price: $4.50 per 100 pills) that ended pregnancy in eleven of 15 women selected by doctors for therapeutic abortions. If convicted, Confidential and its distributor could each be fined...
...single gold coin. But the finds date from the 7th century A.D.-and he feels reasonably sure that King Edwin really ruled from this barbaric palace. It may have been the actual hall where he was converted to Christianity. According to a legend repeated by the Venerable Bede, a pious thegn called his attention to a sparrow that flew into the hall in the dead of winter, lingered awhile in the warmth, and then vanished again into the winter dark. The sparrow's stay, the thegn intoned, was like human life, brief and soon ended. King Edwin, says...
...like finding his way to bed and then finding out who is in it. Acting the count, John soon realizes that the real count was fleeing a pack of emotional creditors whose hearts he had bankrupted. The count's mother is a morphine addict. His sister is a pious recluse who has not spoken to him for 15 years for unjustly killing her fiancé as a collaborationist. His brother, who dutifully manages the family glass foundry, has been cuckolded by the count. His neglected adolescent daughter has a bad outbreak of mystical acne. And his wife...
...shall know the truth" is the pious text to which Real Truth magazine cynically subscribes in its impious operations, "and the truth shall make you free." The kind of truth that Real Truth publishes has made its publisher (Steve Cochran) free of financial worries. Once a nickel-and-dime pressagent for a string of strippers, he can now afford to have the Rolls brought round to a Park Avenue address. But then all at once circulation, and with it Cochran's elegant new world, begins to crumble. "What we need," he storms at his harried staff, "is a really...
Last week Moscow sources found the Central Committee in two minds about how to deal with the youth problem. On the one hand there were pious calls for the "reindoctrination in Marxism-Leninism," and on the other hand an evident intention to crack down on students and unruly youths. Communist newspapers were demanding that the authorities jail "hooligans" and force schools to fight "enemy appearances." It was the kind of confusion in high places that caused all the trouble in the first place...