Word: piousness
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...time when Jimmy Carter's pious announcements about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to American foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...
...time when Jimmy Carter's pious pronoucements about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to Americam foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that Pinochet's junta murdered five years ago with U.S. government encouragement and support, the thousands of Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...
...time when Jimmy Carter's pious pronoucements about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to American foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that Pinochet's junta murdered five years ago with U.S. government encouragement and support, the thousands of Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...
...strike some readers as outrageously unfair and others as eminently fair, as left wing and right wing, as wise and wrongheaded. More often than not, he is stunningly on target. Greeley's latest confection is Everything You Wanted to Know About the Catholic Church but Were Too Pious to Ask (Thomas More Press, $7.95). Greeley simply took 101 words or phrases germane to Catholicism, ranging from Abortion to Wealth of the Church, and dashed off a snappy little essay on each. Sample excerpts...
Today most Harvard Whiffleball is played in three locations near the River Houses. The most pious ballplayers take to the asphalt of St. Paul's Church parking lot behind Quincy House, where a lengthy chain-link fence provides a suitable outfield wall and balls rolling underneath cars are ground rule doubles...