Word: benightedness
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All That & the Flag. Taking what some listeners interpreted as swipes at Presidential Candidates Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater, Scranton warned that the G.O.P. must avoid both "me-tooing the Democrats" and a benighted "do-nothingism" whose credo is that "America's problems will disappear if we all merely...
> Approved, by an 84-0 vote in the Senate, a $1.2 billion annual pay raise for members of the U.S. armed services. A key feature of the bill is that the highest increases - of up to 25.7%-go to younger officers, Army majors, captains and first lieutenants, and their naval...
To say that Shay cannot write coherent English, or to castigate him for his benighted views on Christianity would be valid, but not to the point. Likewise, it is altogether true but unnecessary to mention that he exercises incredible pretension in trying to encompass three or four religions, psychoanalysis, existentialism...
Trouble was, the Moscow meet was organized by the Amateur Athletic Union, a collection of solemn sports buffs who run U.S. amateur athletics with all the imagination of benighted medieval seigneurs. Riding herd over 16 sports from track and field to baton twirling, these stern defenders of amateur purity bristle...
Time of His Life. An amiable and gregarious man whose name still spells U.S. journalism in many benighted corners of the world, Bill Hearst has long yearned to fill his father's image as well as his father's shoes. The globe-trotting safaris give him the chance...