Word: righteous
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...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...
...doesn't stay mad very long." Says Florida Democrat Richard Stone, who has been tongue-lashed by Muskie: "I think he uses his temper. It doesn't use him." Muskie tends to agree: "I do blow my stack," he admits, "but tactfully and strategically. A little righteous indignation at the right time can do wonders...
...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...
...thoroughbred to the line. Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...
...avowed ambition-"We're after the real fanatics. We want the loyal, dedicated kids, the real nuts"-pointed him in Specter's direction. Phil, presumably, would know plenty about reaching the real nuts. All those vintage Spector-produced hits by the Ronettes, Crystals, Darlene Love and the Righteous Brothers were just the sort of sound the Ramones were shooting for. "Little symphonies for the kids," Spector once called these songs...