Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queerest effect of Stakhanovism has been to make Russia's famed Five-Year Plans look slow. The Moscow News is now caricaturing even Russia's previously sacrosanct planners, draws half-smiling, half-snarling workers in the act of striding through and kicking aside the Bolshevik plan bureaucrats...
...that a concession of this magnitude was being negotiated under his nose. Nonetheless, Britain's Foreign Office reacted to the news from Ethiopia with every outward show of consternation. Neither Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare nor League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden could at first be reached, the sacrosanct British weekend having begun, but Foreign Office underlings at once realized that the high, moral case Mr. Eden had been about to present against Italy at Geneva had been smeared and stultified if not destroyed by the taint upon Britain...
...planes reconnoitering above Hankow reported that for miles around the fertile countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard Oil and the Japanese Concession, and a wall of British-American Tobacco Co. fell like the crack of doom. Said the U. S. chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation Commission, Col. G. C. Strobe: "The Chang-kung Dike cannot stand for more than another...
...Chinese the Emperor of Japan is no more impressive or sacrosanct than any other crowned head. Last May the Shanghai weekly New Life printed a piece entitled "Gossip About Emperors." Most of it was about bygone Emperors of China all of whom were disparaged. In passing New Life noted that the present Japanese Emperor is said to have a homely knowledge of biology, remarked that His Majesty might have achieved more as a scientist than he has as an Emperor. Mentioning that Emperor Hirohito of Japan has little real power, New Life then mentioned Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo...
...Enquirer, Devereux copy is sacrosanct, no matter how muddled. Copy-readers never tamper with a line. Thus Enquirer readers were profoundly puzzled last week over the following paragraph...