Word: pious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain critics of America, the masacre will be added evidence that th U.S. is an immoral, unprincipled and racist power; others will insist, with a shade more justice, that the action mocks the pious official rhetoric about saving Asia from Communist aggression in th name of humanity. The most pertinent truth, however, is less accusatory and more difficult for the U.S. to accept: is that Americans as a people have too readily ignored and too little understood the presence of evil in the world...
Though they know little of the workings of their own operation, all of the button sellers have memorized and repeat in monotonously pious tones the fact that New Mobe is $70,000 in debt and needs its dollar per button to survive...
...three witches are historical figures: Anne de Chantraine, a peddler's moony daughter, is burned at 17 in Liège; Charles Poirot, a physician who falls in love with a monstrously pious lady invalid and is burned after she retreats from him into hysteria and screams that he has possessed her; Jeanne Harvilliers, a gypsy's granddaughter filled with loathing for the lead-souled villagers who come to her for love charms and poisons. The book's flat prose is curiously eloquent. "She was on the side of the executioners," the account says of a young...
Golda Meir represents a pious, earnest generation that has begun to disappear in Israel. In its place are the fast-living sabras (born in Israel) with whom the older generation is frequently out of touch. Visiting England several years ago, Mrs. Meir was asked by newsmen why the Beatles had been refused permission to visit Israel. Who, she demanded, are the Beatles? After she had watched the quartet perform on television, she turned incredulously to an assistant. "How could they imagine," she asked, "that the government of Israel would give permission to these people to come in and give...
...Shavians are so pious as to be diverted by all the material in Minney's compilations. Who cares to learn that Shaw once diverted traffic with his walking stick to make way for Greer Garson's car? Or that his housekeeper used to smuggle whisky into Shaw's soup? Still Minney has unearthed a few memorable anecdotes in which Shaw appears as the witty Irishman, some of his cracks as old as the Wicklow Hills. Alfred Hitchcock, on meeting Shaw: "One look at you, and I know there's famine in the land." Shaw, replying...