Word: sacrosanct
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...like McCarthy, who has not only been financially unethical--witness the Lustron case and his tax troubles--but morally dishonest as well? What kind of president do they think Eisenhower will be if he permits the likes of Jenner to vilify those things and those people he considers sacrosanct? The General has strained the theory of political unity to the point of dissolution when he makes such rapprochements in its name. For want of a political adult, then, the Republican Crusade has been compromised, reduced to utter sterility...
...this afternoon," said one of the raiders. Politically, the raid represented a relaxation of one of the restrictions which U.S. policy has laid on itself in fighting its limited war in Korea. Through the first two years of war, Suiho, fourth largest power installation in the world, has been sacrosanct territory: Washington feared early in the war that an attack on it might bring Communist China into the battle; feared later that the power plant was too sensitively interlocked with Russia itself...
...excuses, but the ones used most often usually have something to do with the protection of some dogma--everything from. The Faith to The American Way of Life. It is disappointing therefore to find that what was once a flexible concept, tolerance, has joined the censor's list of sacrosanct doctrines. We have no quibble with advocating tolerance, a trait which many Americans lack, but lately groups like the NAACP have shorn it of much of its richest meaning. Time was when tolerance meant permitting anyone to sample whatever was thrust before him, providing that this fare was not prejudicial...
...spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ("It is time that [his] pedestal were dismounted") and Bertrand Russell ("He made a fool of himself"). He has spoken ill of children ("the most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice. Like a Socratic traveling salesman, he has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks...
Speaking with Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, at a Law School Forum in Langdell Courtroom, Rodell attacked both the quantity and the quality of the Court's decisions in the last three years. He urged that the Court be regarded not as sacrosanct, but as merely "nine men with political power...