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Word: piousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, says a security source, "the most dangerous group so far is the Denver cult." Israeli authorities are afraid that undetected members may go underground. Last week the Concerned Christians were described by their lawyer as being nice people who, like other pious foreigners, were simply awaiting the return of Jesus. And, oh yes, they expect the U.S. to be destroyed by the end of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Target: Jerusalem | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

Salt Lake City, at the base of the splendid and snowy Wasatch mountains, placed a close second to Nagano, Japan, in the race to host the 1998 Winter Olympics. So the pious and dogged capital of Utah went back to work on its fifth bid in three decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics Turn into A Five-Ring Circus | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...conscience was communal, standing in defense of the colorful and emotional piety of an England born of, and bound most preciously to, Catholic Christendom. It was to preserve those ties that More, the great humanist and loyal church reformer, debated the disloyal Protestants. It was to preserve his pious England that More enforced the ban on translations of the Bible into the incendiary vernacular, arguing that to "believe nothing but plain Scripture" was "pestilential heresy." There were more things than words to treasure in a London, as depicted by Ackroyd, full of Maypoles and processions and founts of sacredness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: A Man for More Seasons | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...stick a fork into Ken Starr this week should be wary: the independent counsel has no place to go but up. Yes, the star witness at impeachment hearings will be forced to account for every questionable turn in his investigation of Monica Lewinsky. But Starr, often caricatured as a pious partisan out to ruin Bill Clinton at any cost, comes well trained for the contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starr's Turn on the Grill | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...holiday scramble begin. And beware. While tweens might go for A Bug's Life, and pious adults line up for The Prince of Egypt, neither film will have the urgency of a small voice saying, over and over, "Take me to Rugrats!" In the Pickles family, as in nearly every other TV brood, the kids run things. The next few box-office weeks will determine whether the same applies to reel life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Will Rugrats Rule? | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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