Word: bounden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bounden Duty. M.P.s bombarded Churchill with searching questions in the House. "The future is veiled in obscurity," he replied to Laborite Willie Warbey. "I should not like to plunge too deeply into it this afternoon." His conduct implied, however, that Sir Winston at last had accepted the view that it is his bounden duty, to his country and his party, to let the younger man take over. Asked if he would urge a conference on Formosa, he deferred to his successor: "I doubt if anyone in the whole world has worked as hard as the Foreign Secretary to steer this...
...Comrade Thorez of France and Comrade Togliatti of Italy for restating for all to hear that their peoples would never fight against the Red army. In helping the Soviet Union, said Stalin, these leaders had naturally helped themselves, yet now that Communism is a "mighty force," it is the bounden duty of the Soviet Union to help them...
...which he opposes) and the invocation of the saints (which he advocates). But he found no binding pronouncements by Episcopal Church authority either in favor of these practices or against them. He felt himself equally helpless even to enforce some of the explicit rules of the church, e.g., the "bounden duty" of every Episcopalian to attend services on Sunday. Says Kernan: "The laity may do almost anything they want . . . If you tell them that something's their bounden duty, they're liable to get sore...