Word: righteousness
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...righteous, according to U.S. Author Sax Bradford (The Battle for Buenos Aires), are the wealthy old landowning families who dominate Argentine political affairs, almost always in opposition to the will of the middle-class majority...
...significant that the righteous [in Argentina] use the same word to describe a loose woman and a revolutionary political thinker-"liberal...
Died. Luren Dudley Dickinson, 84, God-fearing Michigan Republican, seven times Lieutenant Governor, onetime Governor; of a heart attack; at his farm home in Charlotte, Mich. In 1939 he aroused the righteous, got nationwide snickers by suspecting that rum-plying white-slavers were busy at the Governors' Conference in Albany. He called what he saw there and in New York City a "Belshazzar's Feast." The cadaverous Methodist crusader spent most of his Governor's term listening through his "pipeline to God," was a lifelong inveigher against the evils of tobacco, gambling, alcohol, dancing...
...enormous help in the devil's sleight of hand is the present vogue of The Historical Point of View. "The Enemy loves platitudes. Of a proposed course of action He wants men, so far as I can see, to ask very simple questions; is it righteous? is it prudent? is it possible? Now if we can keep men asking 'Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way that History is going?' they will neglect the relevant questions...
...asked Lewis, with righteous dignity, "cast the first stone...