Word: righteous
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...angry anti-American protesters on our cover were the last thing many of you wanted to see. "What are you trying to do," asked a Louisiana reader, "scare all the mothers of the servicemen and -women sent to fight this war? It would have been better to show the righteous fury of a Navy SEAL or an Army paratrooper." Objecting to the "Muslims screaming hate against America," a Texan asked, "Why not show the heroic workers cleaning up the rubble in New York?" "We have enough reminders of the terror without that revolting picture," declared an Arizonan. But plenty...
...textbook case of cockblock-by-a-political-scion when Walter B. Kubisch ’03 had his hopes for getting with righteous babe Virginia C. Macleod ’04 dashed after she confessed to a crush on Al Gore III ’05. Said Kubisch bitterly, “This is worse than the time I was cockblocked by Jeb Bush...
...these paths of catastrophic mechanical failure, the idea of a hijacking never entered my mind, not even once. My thoughts were well ensconced in the man vs. nature theme—with nature exacting a devilish price for the sheer hubris of man—not deranged and self-righteous men taking the lives of countless innocents. Hijackings were things that happened to airliners of other more fractious nations, or in the decade just prior to my existence—the bleary and shadowy 1970s...
...terrorist attack armed with flowers and olive branches. These weapons, representing a reckless dismissal of any military action and a knee-jerk preference for peace and amity, are just as dangerous as the ones our nation will use to defend itself. In the real world, peace is secured by righteous armies...
...death, and another mural depicts infantrymen marching off to battle. The inscription does not criticize these men for wasting their talent and education as soldiers. Rather, the walls memorialize and praise the students: “They crossed the sea crusaders keen to help the nations battling in a righteous cause...