Word: pious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a slightly hollow ring to Governor Barnett's attempt to blame the Sunday night riots at the University of Mississippi on "inexperienced, nervous, and trigger-happy" Federal marshals. His pious requests for law and order have not undone the many years of demagoguery and defiance...
Among the titles of various ranks in the organization of the synagogue, the expedition discovered, were "elders" (preebyterol) and "pious men" (theosebels). The longest inscription commemorates a donor whose name is lost, his wife Regina, and their children, who "from the bounties of Almighty God" gave the marble revetments and wall paintings for the synagogue...
...Dealer Norman H. Weaver and his wife and four children. Mystified by the Weavers' un-Gallic ways, Reporter Hunebelle let them do their own talking, stitched together a series of candid Weaver monologues that runs for eleven pages in the magazine. She got to like them, though their pious earnestness and indifference to food were trying. "Generally speaking," she said, "they have a lot to learn in the realm of the senses," and she was astonished to discover that the Bible and the telephone directory were about the only books Weaver had read. "Yet his relative lack of culture...
...good") led to dangerous inflation that threatened to price British goods out of world markets. Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd has had to clamp drastic restraints on wages (the "pay pause") and credit, thereby deeply alienating the traditionally Tory middle class. Though his harsh medicine was necessary, Lloyd's pious manner of dishing it out irked even his colleagues, who term 1962-style austerity "Selwynism...
...MAKE A MONSTER," rasps the copy for the latest assembly kit-a ic-in. Frankenstein's monster at 98^. "Get Him Now Before He Gets You." The makers of the Frankenstein monster (and other movie monsters to come) include a pious aside to parents: "In the opinion of reputable authorities, [these models] actually perform a valuable service for the child." When "certain fantasies" center about such a model, instead of being "improperly focused," they are released "in the manner of steam escaping through the safety valve on a radiator...