Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West show will make enough money to pay for a ranch "where city kids can come out and see what the West was really like." He lavishes his kindness on everyone from runaway heiresses to Viet Nam deserters, from one-handed cowboys to pregnant Indians. He is stirred to righteous anger only when a bad guy mauls his best gal or breaks a little boy's piggy bank. He is too good to be true-except in a sweet-souled dime-novel movie like this here...
...Republic of Korea the events of April 1960 are popularly known as hak saeng uigo-the Righteous Student Uprising. During those turbulent days, the students of South Korea succeeded in doing what their country's politicians had failed to do: they brought down the entrenched, increasingly corrupt twelve-year-old government of President Syngman Rhee and sent the crusty old leader into exile. Today, even the official Handbook of Korea, published under the Park Chung Hee regime hails the uprising unreservedly. "The students," it declares, "had led the people into a democratic revolution...
Hitler's eyes lit up. It was like the party rallies, the football games, where there are no questions, no complications, only heroes and martyrs, and great, righteous causes. The crowd was following him devoutly now, all the way down Mass Ave to the police station, where Hitler was booked and fingerprinted with his technicians...
...SIDE, face quivering with anger, eyes betraying his fear, stands a state trooper, leather boots up to the calf, white riot helmet, gas mask on his belt. On the other side, a demonstrator, mouth set in righteous defiance, shoulders hunching forward and back almost at once, spunk and fright in equal parts. The motorcycle helmet, the gas mask on his belt too. In between the two of them, eight feet of chain link and three strands of barbed wire...
...morality, truth and trust matter so much in politics-prevented him from viewing the Soviet Union more pragmatically at the outset, then caused him to overreact when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Carter's lack of an intuitive grasp of how to deal with the Soviets, combined with his righteous wrath over their misbehavior, has made him all the more susceptible to what Vance sees as Brzezinski's excessive reliance on punitive policies...