Word: righteousness
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...that great patriot, Manuel Quezon, with members of his cabinet. The seat of your government is therefore now firmly re-established on Philippine soil. . . . Rally to me. . . . Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of Divine God points the way. Follow in His name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory...
...luxurious mane is streaked with grey; he is still saddened by the death two years ago of his wife Myrta; he has given up smoking, and now just chews cigars down to two-inch butts. But his vocabulary is still full of sound & fury, his anger still as righteous as Jere miah's, his hold on the United Mine Workers still complete...
When Jim Reed retired in 1929, an acid flavor, very American, went out of U.S. political life. Bill Borah was a greater orator. But none could surpass Jim Reed in righteous anger or in-as newsmen at the time called it-the "rhinestone rhythm" of his speech. He was the delight of the galleries, the despair and envy of his foes. Woodrow Wilson, often his foe, called him a marplot...
...shrine. She was born in New York, in exile, the daughter of his rebel grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...
Arjuna and Krishna. The Gitā is just as timely as it was 2,000 years ago, for it opens with the problem of the righteous man's attitude toward war. Drawn up on the historic plain of Kurukshetra, on chariots, elephants, horses and afoot, were thousands of Indian warriors. They had assembled to fight a battle to decide who should rule a kingdom. Arjuna was the rightful contender, and Krishna, in person, was with him on the vast plain...