Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hero. His amnesty proposal provoked the most serious opposition. Self-righteous Communists denounced it as "immoral"; Gaullist Deputy André Diethelm called it "a pact with the devil." Pinay fought back. From his notes in a big cardboard folder he drew some startling statistics. Example: French peasants and the petit bourgeois have hoarded more than 15 times as much gold as there is in the Bank of France. The obvious reasons: 1) Frenchmen distrust their own paper currency, which seems to buy less every day; 2) many wealthy Frenchmen have avoided paying taxes for so long that they no longer...
...unique achievements which have prompted it are added proof that the Roosevelts, man & wife, "betrayed their class" for the bauble of fame and the doubtful company of reporters, social workers and ward heelers. "Oh," says Mrs. Roosevelt with a smile-a tolerant, contented smile which recalls the ever-righteous crusades of the New Deal -"they think I am most peculiar." She adds: "I still see them-occasionally they - find it interesting to have a peculiarity to dinner...
...believe it is the business of the church to tell the state what to do," said Congressman Judd. "It is the business of the church to discover what is righteous, what is the will of God. and inculcate those ideas in the individual...
...everyone had yet jumped on the bandwagon. Southeast Conference athletic officials, their feet dragging noticeably, voted almost unanimously to tell the ten college presidents to stick to their educational knitting. Bowl officials were outraged at being singled out for criticism. The righteous indignation was summed up by Lathrop Leishman, chairman of the Rose Bowl's football committee: "The problems of proselyting and subsidizing of athletes exists in conferences that never play postseason games . . . You can't cure the mange by killing...
...houses, and scared our professors' little children. A few nights before the set up, Hugh McIsaac, a wonderful, upright, American boy, a veteran, had told this man that if he didn't stop his persecution of us he would 'push him through the wall,' He said it in righteous anger, not meaning it literally, but as any red-blooded man would...