Word: pious
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...union rallies all over Argentina. Taking over the management of the rowdy descamisados from her husband, Evita tickled them into submission. When the railway union asked for a 40% rise, Evita said: "I think they should get 50%." They did. When the telephone workers asked for 70% in the pious hope of getting half, Evita got them the whole...
...young men who had no professional intentions. They have been complained of by their more serious preceptors, these three hundred years. They have committed every sort of folly and extravagance. New colleges such as Amherst and Williams have been founded in order to provide a place where poor but pious youths could be educated for the ministry, uncontaminated by the 'rake-hells,' 'bloods,' and 'sports' of Harvard...
Ambassador William O'Dwyer, the politics-toughened ex-mayor of New York, even tried to turn the tables on the committee. He implied that he had evidence linking pious Senator Tobey with tainted campaign money (TIME, March 26). "I have it in my pocket and I will show it only to Senator Tobey," he said darkly...
...mild-mannered Estes Kefauver presided with a firm hand, as Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley, an able, professionally annoying examiner, hammered at the unhappy witnesses. At Kefauver's right sat Maryland's judicial-mannered Herbert O'Conor, Wyoming's Lester Hunt and New Hampshire's pious old Charles W. Tobey, no lawyer, who glared with Yankee outrage at uneasy officials and sullen thugs, burst out at intervals to denounce the sinners, once with such eloquence that he moved himself to tears...
Hayden burgeons, but he still has a lot more to learn about the wide world. Some of it he learns with pain and dismay from Professor Lorenzo Lundsgard, lately of Hollywood. A new, if feebler, edition of that pious fraud, Elmer Gantry, with a touch of Berzelius Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with...