Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Romans were right-there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions of us who heard Virginia Hill...
...engulfed even this university--if the former, then we can only turn for comfort to the shining lessons of the great stoic, "O tempora, O mores!" If the latter--remembering that this outrage occurs day after day and at reduced rates--we must join the great Orator in his righteous outburst of indignation and exclaim, "Quousque tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nostra...
...executive offices of big business." Wilson, they declared, would accept "window-dressing, supplied by labor, to cover the back-room activities of the leaders of industry who staff the ODM." But, said the bosses, "he will get no such window-dressing" from organized labor. And with a self-righteous assertion that "we of the U.L.P.C. have voiced these criticisms not to impair our defense program but to improve it," they resigned en masse from all the advisory Government positions they had held...
...trickiest of human emotions is righteous indignation. Last week, as for weeks before, that emotion was being exhibited in all its trickiness by New York Roman Catholics crying "Blasphemy!" and by their opposition crying "Clerical censorship...
...want. Last December, glooming over low fiction sales, Retail Bookseller bluntly expressed a credo of the trade: "The truth is that the public really doesn't want books worth buying so much as books that everybody is talking about ... a book like Forever Amber, a book that the righteous and the literary will deplore...