Word: devoutedly
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Like any good commissar, Dennis carried out Moscow's orders. But he was not too skillful as an executive officer and tactician. He tried, for example, to get Mike Quill, onetime devout party-liner, to throw the support of his C.I.O. Transport Workers Union behind Henry Wallace's presidential campaign. Quill refused. When...
...devout citizens hurried uneasily into the great cathedral and prayed. Others just looked up to the sky and grinned. Children pulled off shoes and pattered gaily in tiny puddles along bustling Jiron Union. Newspapers dusted off their big wooden headline type. Rain had come to Lima. It was only .08 inch (in 90 minutes) but it was the first rainfall in Peru's capital in five years, and the heaviest since a .12-inch shower...
...their fears unloose their tongues. Fingal and Pelancey are soon suspected by several people: Pelancey's clerk who overhears their quarrel; his devout cleaning girl, who drags the truth out of him and urges him to confess; Barty's shrewd old mother; and the dead man's former mistress...
...born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty potentates. Says one Hungarian priest: "The Primate is a great man, it is true. But his father-he was an even greater...
...Portugal's "qualified" voters may, if they wish, go to the polls. Since Salazar seized power 20 years ago there have been several presidential "elections," but this was the first in which an opposition candidate was permitted. Once a seminarist slated for the priesthood, later a university economist, devout, self-effacing Dictator Salazar believes the masses incapable of governing themselves. Every now & then he lets the opposition show its head, to make a show of "democracy...