Word: benightedness
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Churchill played two roles, and his audience loved him in both. To the party, he was Old Tory, bucolic and patriotic, quick to boot Socialist backsides and to chuck the British voter under the chin. The other Churchill looked larger, more visionary and controversial. He was the great Britannic Moses...
After the election last June, the 35-year-old priest felt more like a benighted missionary than ever. Though there was virtually no unemployment and the wine industry was flourishing, Gaggio di Piano gave the Christian Democrats only 161 votes against 1,020 for the Communist Party. Don Giuseppe decided...
The book is written slickly, but without distinction. Its main character is often a parody of a real man; certainly it would be hard to find, even among the most benighted club men and athletes, a man who so considers his wedding "the second happiest day." But for all its...
¶ The leader and his lesser lions must be ready for opposition from two species of benighted sheep-anti-Peronistas and independents. The proper way to deal with the anti-Peronistas is to "hit them" occasionally but not too often-"if you hit them every day, in the end they...
In this benighted country of ours, where we still have inflation, floods and flies, if not famine, the question arises as to why Mr. Willcox did not stay in Red China where everything is so lovely? Could it be that he returns as a propagandist? And what about registration as...