Word: devouting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these remarks in Chenault's character and past, investigators found confusion and paradox. In the bluegrass country of Winchester, Ky., where he was raised, people remembered Wayne Chenault as quiet, easygoing and studious, a "nice boy" who had a newspaper route and attended Baptist church regularly with his devout parents. Later in Dayton, Ohio, where his father is now a chemical plant security guard, he was known as a clean-cut teen-ager who stayed out of trouble and was "always making people laugh...
That Nixon is having this kind of difficulty despite his intense efforts to be recognized as a devout and respected believer was probably foreordained. Almost every President has had such trouble to some degree, just as every President has felt compelled to speak piously in public, regardless of what he may have truly felt inside. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, was denounced from the pulpit for his conduct of the Viet Nam War when he went to church in historic Williamsburg...
...Londonderry prison. The sisters were raised amid the revolutionary passions of Belfast's working-class Andersontown district, an I.R.A. stronghold. As teenagers, they shared a liking for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as well as for Irish folk dances. Both girls were and are devout Roman Catholics: a notebook that Dolours was carrying when she was arrested for the London bombings contained notes on the Virgin Mary along with details about her I.R.A. contacts...
With graphic understatement, Alive portrays the desperation that preceded the decision to eat the dead. The young survivors-all of them devout Catholics -gradually realized that such a step was inevitable if they were to live. They debated the matter in detail, under the circumstances showing an extraordinary and civilized concern for conviction rather than an easy rush to expediency. Essentially, they decided that God wanted them to stay alive if they possibly could, and had given them the means to do so in the bodies of their friends...
...Rose has been working on for years, is long and fragmented. It was organized and edited by former LIFE Writer Robert Coughlan, who used old diaries and notes plus new taped interviews. But it successfully assembles a whole woman out of many parts-the politician's daughter; the devout young girl; the social butterfly; the wife of an intolerant, driving man; not to mention that shadowed figure that has fleetingly presented itself to the public in recent years. All of these images are united in a portrait not merely of Mrs. Kennedy but of the ingredients of motherhood...