Word: pious
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...tired of pious preaching from Sherman Adams," said titular Party Leader Adlai Stevenson on the eve of his trip to Moscow. "This is not the only example of hypocrisy in the Administration." Florida's Senator George Smathers and Michigan's presidential hopeful, Governor "Soapy" Williams, solemnly echoed the hypocrisy issue...
Despite the rigor of their studies and the dearth of diversion in pious Boston, students still managed to exercise their time-honored right to cut classes...
Eighteen years after Sewall had entered Harvard, the resident fellows echoed that statement: "Now the great End for which the College was founded, was a Learned, and pious Education of youth, their Instruction in Languages, Arts, and Sciences, and having their minds and manners form'd aright...
...This bill," said Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy one afternoon last week from his outpost in the Senate's rear row, "is little more than a pious admonition of concern." Added Illinois' fatigued and visibly angry Paul Douglas: "The Committee on Finance reported a papier-mâché whale." But Democrats Kennedy and Douglas stood virtually alone as they chided the Senate for its low-pressure approach to a watered-down bill for extending unemployment compensation. The bill had already been passed by the House (TIME, May 12) and approved without a comma's change...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects...