Word: pious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race track when they were supposed to be at work; city truck drivers were caught selling city paint; a private citizen's driveway was paved at public expense. But Hemphill was a serious annoyance to Dilworth. "The crooks we can cope with," cried Dilworth. "But it is these pious phonies we can't handle...
Veteran Vatican observers noted a few unusual aspects about the initial state visit of Belgium's austere and pious Queen Fabiola, 32. The white gown and veil she wore instead of the accustomed black was easily explained: she had asked Pope John XXIII for the ancient privilege of Roman Catholic queens. The reason for her other departures from the past -forgoing the protocol-prescribed trek up the Noble Staircase in favor of an elevator ride to the second-floor apartment of the Pope, failing to join her husband King Baudouin, 30, for the traditional call on the Vatican Secretary...
...become a general pattern in African states." A second most interesting contributing is the article on African law, by Boston lawyer Archibald McColl, which, like Elliot Berg's survey of American industry in Africa, presents hard facts. Jeffrey Butler's article on Africa's new leadership suffers most from pious generalization--e.g. "the quality of leadership will continue to be of crucial importance...
...pious fraud has collapsed," declared H. Stuart Hughes, professor of , last night. "Everyone from the New York Times down has come and admitted the fact of American intervention in Cuba." President he charged, "has made an unpardonable error...
Neither the relentless logic of the Student Council nor the pious platitudes of the administration has changed any attitudes toward parietals lately. The eternal issue will be no more than that until students become interested in persuading the Faculty rather than convincing themselves...