Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companies "remove so large a proportion of cases to the Federal courts" if they think States' right to regulate them is so sacrosanct...
...five hundred. At the same time service men on leave in Boston, many of them fresh from college classrooms, will find themselves footloose and fancy free, hungry for something besides bars and burlesque. These two problems could be partially resolved if the University would agree to open its almost sacrosanct classroom doors to a limited number of soldiers and sailors...
...commentators have the personal get-up-&-go which led Lewis to crash the sacrosanct Capitol press galleries in 1939. Thanks to him, radio reporters are now regularly present in Congress. Accusations that his reporting is "destructive" distress him. He says he is just using radio to cut red tape. When he is in town, his plush office at WOL is a loud and tangy chatterbox. The clatter-chatter was finally too much for the female occupant of the adjoining office. While the commentator was on tour, arrangements were rushed to equip his office with a soundproof door...
...these limits those who oppose the fundamental premise on which this society is founded. Yet, to my mind, this paradox is a necessity which springs from the choice between the two conceptions of human ethics as opposite as the poles. It is a consequence of a belief in the sacrosanct nature of the individual and a rejection of the view which glorifies the collective aim. To argue that the rights of the individual are a purely utilitarian invention is to deprive the underlying American ideal of its cutting edge. You can build a free nation on a Christian view...
...population figures by religions: Hindus, believing in reincarnation, caste, polytheistic pantheism, soulforce: 239,195,140; Moslems, believing there is no god but Allah: 77,093,000; Sikhs, believing in a hodgepodge of Hindu and Moslem creeds: 4,335, 771; Christians: 6,296,763; Jains, believing all animals are sacrosanct: 1,251,000; Buddhists, believing in the escape from suffering through the "Eightfold path": 12,786,806; Parsis, believing in Ormazd, lord of light and goodness: 109,000: tribal (mainly primitive) religions...