Word: righteousness
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...anyone." Legitimate, of course, was the key word; it did not mean abandoning the Middle East to headlong, irresponsible nationalism. The great colonial powers had long preached that a people has to be emotionally, intellectually and economically ready before it can safely run its own house. In its self-righteous '303, the U.S. derided such talk as hypocritical. But troubles in such suddenly freed nations as the Philippines, Burma and Indonesia have made the U.S. think again...
...Elohenu velohe abotenu - Our God and, God of our fathers, let our prayer come before thee; hide not thyself from our supplication, for we are not arrogant and stiff-necked, that we should say before thee, O Lord our God and God of our fathers, we are righteous and have not sinned; but verily, we have sinned...
...sliced away what little brain he had. In any case, as described in this collection of magazine stories by Max Shulman, Dobie's activities keep involving him in such things as academic failures, incarceration for love's sake in a semester of home ec., and the righteous rages of his father, who tells Dobie: "I will pound you into the ground like a tent stake...
...first glance, the mass dismissal seemed a severe, regrettable but eminently clear-cut and righteous act of disciplinary surgery, performed in the interests of the Army's loftiest ideals. The facts, as announced, were few and terse. The Academy's honor code-by which every cadet is not only duty-bound to shun lying, cheating and stealing, but to report his own transgressions and those of his fellows -had been broken. Academy officials had learned, from one cadet's report, of wholesale cribbing for examinations. Concerned for the Academy's integrity, the Army then arranged...
...bitter row at Florida's little Rollins College had gotten to the point where emotion on both sides had hardened into righteous indignation, and the original facts were buried under pride & prejudice. To a vocal majority, deposed President Paul Wagner, the young whirlwind who came triumphantly on the scene two years ago, was now the self-seeking villain of the piece who had richly earned his comeuppance. To a dwindling minority who still supported Wagner, he was the scapegoat in a situation he had worsened but not made. On orders from an economy-minded board of trustees, Wagner...