Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...populist message: he roasted his opponent for suggesting an increase in the state income tax; he denounced some of Daley's proposed public works in Chicago; he opposed busing. But what he chiefly presented to the voters was Walker the man -straight-shooting, indignant, a mite self-righteous. He would lock eyes with his audience and demand: "Aren't you fed up with race-track and shoe-box politics?" It was an allusion to scandals that have embarrassed the Daley machine. Voters apparently were too mesmerized to remember the Walker Report or whether they liked it. They liked...
While bristling with self-confidence, the report is not offensively self-righteous. It forthrightly ticks off some U.S. failures: to prevent the India-Pakistan war, stimulate fruitful negotiations between Egypt and Israel, keep Taiwan in the United Nations, find a better way to help nations of Latin America develop economically. It concedes that not achieving a negotiated settlement in Viet Nam was the Administration's most serious failure, but blames this on Hanoi...
...hair. For a few seconds, the stunned House sat and watched. Then Tory M.P.s pulled Bernadette away from the embattled Home Secretary. As she was escorted from the chamber, a group of women in the visitors' gallery shouted "Murder! Murder!" In less than five minutes, the civil-righteous little spitfire returned. Defending her attack on Maudling,* she shouted, "I did not shoot him in the back, which is what they did to our people...
THAT rather righteous statement in Richard Nixon's 1972 budget message may well be correct-as far as it goes. But as the President is well aware, the great gray mass of numbers and charts that is being sent to Congress this week has a rhetoric of its own that is difficult indeed to deflate. Plagued by a painful recession and a limping recovery during the first three years of his Administration, Nixon is determined to get the U.S. economy into the best possible shape by November or earlier. To do so, he has crafted a budget that will...
...more properly the role of the legislature than of the courts. Shifting perceptions have already made most of the world's past executions, for political, religious or simply trivial offenses, seem barbaric. The mere suspicion of such future condemnations of our own times should make even the most righteous judge hesitate before continuing so fallible, so irreversible, so perilously godlike a practice as the imposition of death by decree...