Word: righteousness
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...offered her his own, slightly more ravaged, cheek in return. The kissee, Mrs. John F. Kennedy, looked pleased; but the moment, recorded on nationwide television, brought some cries of public outrage. "Distasteful'' and "disgusting," sniffed the proper to the polltakers; and though Gossip Dorothy Kilgallen soothed one righteous reader by explaining that "it was the sort of 'social' kiss customary in high society," she went on: "it's the New Frontier, so you've got to expect the members to make a few new rules. Maybe kissing the First Lady on TV indicates...
...court on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. No one can speak of the trial without bitter emotion; Marcy has fought disease with a fanatic's fury since tuberculosis killed her husband and son, and the fury has won her more enemies than friends among the righteous and self-satisfied men who run the town...
...violate the principles by which we have lived and labored and presumed to judge others. If we stay out, we shall give half our continent to the Commies. How do we choose now? To be live hypocrites like our cynical European cousins? Or to lie down and die, everlastingly righteous, in the marketplace of history? It's a crummy choice, but perhaps in its making we shall somehow come of age morally at last...
...Northern employer may be expected to point with righteous pride to the fair practice laws of his state. Yet the abuse of these laws was brought to light by recent government investigations in the state of New York. These revealed that although no blank was left for race, nationality or religion on forms submitted to employment bureaus, many employers were skirting this by placing a small code, N.F.U. (not for us) in the corner of the forms...
...that "we will not drink from the cup of genocide" by submitting to "the tyranny of judicial oppression." For his part, he was willing to go to jail rather than accept Black's order. Furthermore, he advised "any official who is not prepared to suffer imprisonment for this righteous cause" to resign...