Word: pious
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Time's Nick. In Washington, pious Seaman First Class Robert Baker won a free phone call to Louisiana in a Scripture-reading contest, woke his family in time to rescue them from poison gas leaking from a heater...
...Ofori Atta was a stout, pious, blue-black man who ruled over Akim Abuakwa on Africa's Gold Coast. London knew him. Once he visited King George V to be knighted for his services to the Crown (supplying soldiers and bearers) in World War I. Again he went to London on business, as a director of Akim, Ltd., a diamond mining company. He wore a heavy golden crown, a purple and gold toga. Wherever he went, a small black boy in silk knee breeches walked before him. The boy was the repository of Sir Ofori's soul...
Quick to honor a hero, quick to resent a slur are the rangy sons of the Lone Star State. Last week, quickened by both these emotional spurs, hot-hearted Texans rallied in droves to the banner of scholarly, pious Homer Price Rainey, president since 1939 of the sprawling University of Texas at Austin. Balding, unprepossessing Dr. Rainey, who worked his way through school and college to become one of the leading U.S. educators, was locked in battle with the Texas Board of Regents...
Missouri. Pious, indecisive Republican Governor Forrest Donnell (who is popularly believed to consult his law books before deciding to go to the men's room) was favored over C.I.O.-backed Democrat Roy McKittrick, who defeated veteran Isolationist Senator Bennett Clark...
...surprised when pious Gerard, the eldest brother, became so filled with "gnawing self-doubt" and the need to test his strength that he abstained from liquids until his tongue turned black. Sometimes he lay in bed, "filled with mortification . . . contemplating the ugli ness of the name Hopkins"-a loathing from which he never recovered. "Tuncks is a good name," the youth wrote in his diary; "Gerard Manley Tuncks...