Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue denim dress in the county jail the next day, she spoke with righteous indignation. She had been "busted" (jailed) last year for taking heroin. "But I kicked [got rid of the habit]. I have no eyes to weigh 94 lbs. again. You couldn't see me if I turned sideways." Now why, she demanded, was she put in jail merely for "smoking...
...Coming as and when it did, Whittaker Chambers' sacrifice had an incalculable value -if only to set the record straight for some of our "highschool liberals" that have been rampant since 1932. Never did any man write with such righteous lucidity. Fie on those who would measure his abasement in dollars & cents...
Despite the fact that the Senate Agriculture Committee has brought many of these shortages to light, self-righteous Secretary Brannan has not changed his mind about the investigations. Said he at week's end: "I just don't understand the reason for proceedings like this...
...righteous clamor, outraged desk-thumping and shocked eye-rolling, nothing quite equals the U.S. Congress in those ood, occasional moments when it feels that its honor has been impugned. Last week members of the House hit the ceiling so hard that it seemed for a while they would have to be scraped off, en masse. The Congressmen believed they were being accused by one of their own number of being drunks and spies...
...strong objections to the form the course Social Science 111 was conducted, not because I agree with him but because it indicates that there is someone with an independent spirit who takes his trouble to check up on his teachers. However, I don't believe that his self righteous "vomiting feeling in my stomach" is justified by the statistics he has or by the opinions he holds...