Word: pith
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Your story on the new missionary [Dec. 27] alters the stereotype of the pith-helmeted, culturally insensitive missionary and captures the complexity and diversity of the Christian missions today. The missionary may have changed; God's message...
...York Irishman Bourke Cockran (who had been one of Jennie's lovers), wrote Churchill, was the best speaker he ever heard, "in point, in pith, in rotundity, in antithesis and in comprehension...
...Barbados the next day, another airport welcome took a comic-opera turn. Reagan stepped off Air Force One, listened to a band attired in starched white tunics, navy blue trousers and pith helmets play a quite creditable version of The Star-Spangled Banner, and mounted a small platform to receive a military salute. Suddenly a loud bang, followed by several more, made his security men jump. Smoke drifted over a friendly crowd of thousands, many shielding themselves from the sun under brightly colored umbrellas. It turned out that the Barbadian army had wanted to give the visiting head of state...
Sally Apgar, 22, is Durkin's press secretary. She worked with Kennedy's campaign for most of the year, met Durkin--one of the first senators to support his Massachusetts. counterpart's presidential bid--and was taken with his pith. She sits in a cluttered corner, making phone calls and taking notes on a makeshift desk of paper boxes. The state Durkin headquarters is a flurry of activity...
...thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o 'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action." -Hamlet...