Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Devilish Fantasies. She is still on the same chaise longue. but the year is 1864, the drawing room is stuffy, cluttered, sealed against a breath of air. In this world, she finds, her name is Milly Baines, she is a total invalid, and she has a priggish, self-righteous sister who hates her. When she tells a visiting pastor that she is a woman of the future who doesn't belong in 1864, he denounces her claims as devilish fantasies...
...Seats. Desperately, the Labor Party fought to shake itself free from the unwelcome Communist leeches. Evatt was especially worried because his party depends on the large Catholic vote in Australia's big cities. "I tell Menzies and his agents," cried Evatt, in righteous anger, "that if they impute to me ... any sympathy with Communism, they are the vilest liars in the world...
After the first burst of righteous fury, the charges narrowed to two basic areas. The first was concerned with alleged abuses under Title I of the housing act, still in existence, which provides federal aid to home owners for repairs. The other area was Section...
...righteous citizens of the Redlands -with your 27 churches and 35 civic and fraternal organizations-you, to your everlasting shame, refused to let your children attend school because 85 little Puerto Rican and Mexican children were enrolled there . . . Sure, some of them come to school unbathed, even as some of yours. Sure, some of them don't understand our language, but they're young and teachable and citizens. They're vaccinated, they're inoculated . . . They can't contaminate your children. You can contaminate them-with the germ of intolerance...
...radio broadcast to the citizens of Israel. He was convinced that, "in spite of excessive party fragmentation . . . the people of Israel are far more united at heart than many imagine." Then he concluded with a definition of faith, in his version of the words of the Prophet Habakkuk: "Righteous man lives by his faith. He will not preach to others, will not act the saint by calling on others to live justly, will not look for fault in his neighbour. But he will practice his faith in his daily life-he will live it." Next week Ben-Gurion will begin...