Word: puritanically
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...choice of the Angry Pilgrim would be especially unfortunate for a team up against the Yale Bulldogs. In a battle between a fierce canine and a Puritan minister, we'd put our money...
...long last, Question Five offers Massachusetts voters an opportunity to move the state out of the Puritan age. Sadly, the ballot proposal is only an incremental step, not the bold action the Commonwealth needs...
...Puritan roots are deep," said Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, striking a philosophical note. "We're fascinated by sex and afraid...
Most cities are stories, continuing narratives that have to be learned and experienced to be appreciated. Here, you can't get away from it; every other building was once inhabited by a literary giant, a Puritan elder and an Irish pol. Today, their descendants live there--John Updike, Bill Weld and Billy Bulger--sharing the city with newer Bostonians to different ethnicities...
...majority of men and women on this campus maintain body weights that in no way pose any real threat to their health. However, Cucci describes the horrors of fat and weight gain in a manner more suitable for a Puritan diatribe against sin than a rational plan for greater fitness. He presents overeating as a "temptation" that the strong can resist but through which the weak snack their way to their eventual "self-destruction." Those who eat therefore lack discipline and control and need to be saved from their own cravings...