Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Putting the problem to Congress, Char lie Brannan was too politic to remind its members of what they already knew too well: the potato glut was its baby. The Senate Agriculture Committee handed it back to Brannan, who decided to save the $15 million and dump the spuds...
...gathered for the funeral at the handsome, Byzantine-style church of Santa Rosa de Lima, which Doña María had built, and where her husband is entombed. Her body was to be placed beside his. Just before the ceremony, a messenger arrived from City Hall to remind church authorities that an old sanitary ordinance forbade burial except in cemeteries. The priests protested that they had long since gotten a special dispensation from the municipality to put Doña María in a crypt in the church, just as they had for her husband 8 years...
Since all this is a moral problem, said Murdock, he thought that his views should be dealt with by society's moral leaders, the clergy. "No doubt it seems absurd to think of the clergy as leading a movement to relax a standard of sexual morality ... I remind you, however, that it was the Protestant clergy who brought about the first great sexual reform of modern times by attacking and reversing the restrictive taboo of ecclesiastical celibacy. There is no inherent reason why they could not lead a second reform of equal magnitude and importance, especially with the cooperation...
Professor Gus never wavered in his devotion to his own Jewish faith-nor did he ever fail to remind his Catholic students, at the approach of holy days, of their own churchgoing duties. "In religion as in commerce," said Gus, "a good man must be faithful to the principles that guide his living." He spent hours writing lengthy comments on test questions, devoted Sunday after Sunday to tutoring students who were having a hard time. When someone asked Anna what Gus's hobby was, she answered, "Hobby? His classes are his hobby...
...husband that way. On a trip to the Grumman Aircraft plant for a TIME story during the war he emerged from a telephone booth and introduced himself as the public relations man who was to show her through the plant. Says she: "Sometimes I have to remind him that I got him out of a phone booth...