Word: pious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inferior Lizard. As the Klan's high mugwumps fidgeted through four days of congressional catechism in the old House Caucus Room last week, they resorted to the same Pavlovian routine of pious nonresponse as their avowed archfoes the Communists. The Klan's chief panjandrum, Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, 36, probably challenged the Communist record before the same committee by taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments a total of 158 times in two days, invoking the mumbled formula: "I respectably decline to answer that question...
...Pious Thoughts." All week long L.B.J. kept his blowtorch trained on the negotiators. He had Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz looking over United Steelworkers' President I. W. Abel's shoulder and Commerce Secretary John Connor hovering near Top Management Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. When that tactic flagged, he sent Wirtz over to hound management and Connor to rile labor. After a breakfast meeting with congressional leaders, he sent them trotting out of the White House clutching conveniently typed statements calling for a settlement. Almost minute by minute he received progress reports from his aides...
Finally, after days of such pressure, both sides began to wilt. At the first sign of a break, the President strode in to confront the negotiators, spent a full 43 minutes bombarding them with hard statistics and "a few pious thoughts," as he called them. He was in rare form. He flattered both sides, declaring that "Abel is an able fellow and a hard trader, but he has met his match in this fellow Cooper." He assured the industry that, with profits running at an alltime high, it could well afford a reasonable wage boost...
...Female hair supposedly has an erotic effect on men, so pious Orthodox wives traditionally shave their heads and wear kerchiefs or wigs...
...ashes of Jawaharlal Nehru have long since disappeared into the silt of the Ganges, carrying with them the faint shadow of the rose he always wore in his lapel. Gone with the Pandit is the image of India as a moral bulwark of the "nonaligned" world, a pious mediator between the great powers. Gone with the jaunty jodhpurs and preachy pronouncements is the hope that India might soon be an economic success. Gone, too, are the pride and the confidence that inspired India in its formative years. India without Nehru stands dispirited and disillusioned, a land without elan where...