Word: pious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result Doherty can do little more than mouth pious phrases about the "vitality" of the Democratic party or about "John Kennedy passing on the torch." But Doherty's words belie his thoughts. He knows that he has a problem, and he has some ideas about how to meet it. Unfortunately, he may never be given a chance...
...Pious Caveat. Delivering the Godkin Lectures at Harvard, former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Walter...
...Democratic majority called, as expected (TIME, March 18), for "standby" tax increases that could be put into effect whenever needed by a joint resolution of Congress, plus immediate suspension of the investment tax credit. In deference to the Great Society-and the November elections-the report contained a pious caveat that "the poor, the sick, the aged, the infirm and the discriminated against" should not, in any case, be asked to "carry the major burdens of preventing inflation." The six-man G.O.P. minority demanded "an immediate deferral of federal spending for nonessential and low-priority projects," though New York...
...Houston father who had gunned down his stepdaughter's teen-age lover in plain view of witnesses. Foreman excoriated the dead sinner, hauled a church pulpit in front of the jury, delivered a sermon on teen-age vice, and tearfully recited a Sir Walter Scott poem about "pious fathers." The father was acquitted...
...change-from $260 million this fiscal year to $159 million in 1966-67 in federal subsidies for school lunches and recess milk. Though the President said that the remaining funds would be rechanneled to provide food for children "who need it most," his suggested savings stirred pious protest in Congress...