Word: sacrosanct
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...whole new scale of charges for National Health Service, sacrosanct to Labor's left wing: one shilling on prescriptions, for which, Butler gibed, he planned to use legislation "very conveniently left behind" by Labor; a $2.80 fee for dentistry; charges up to one half the cost for surgical belts, hearing aids, wigs. Total saving: $56 million...
...Frenzied mobs wreaked their vengeance on the oases of the hated Brit ish wherever they found them. Virtually every bar that catered to Westerners was wrecked. Three British-and American-owned movie theaters were set afire. Barclays Bank and several British-run clothing stores went up in flames. The sacrosanct Turf Club was invaded, its furnishings smashed, its building set afire, its precious liquor spilled. Even famed Shepheard's Hotel was swept up in the holocaust...
Academic freedom has never been an issue in Australia, he says. "The university is regarded as sacrosanct, a forum for all shades of opinion. We've got our McCarthys and Obers, but the public laughs them down...
...fill of scandal and corruption, was shocked, sorry and puzzled by the news from West Point. Ninety of the Academy's 2,500 cadets, among them the bulk of Army's disciplined and magnificent football team, faced dismissal for a breach of the Cadet Corps' sacrosanct honor system...
...Bryce Canyon he saw: "A million wind-blown pinnacles of salmon pink and fiery white all fused together like stick candy-all suggestive of a child's fantasy of heaven . . ." In Salt Lake City he let loose a hot blast at Mormonism: "The harsh ugly temple, the temple sacrosanct, by us unvisited, unvisitable, so ugly, grim, grotesque, and blah . . . Enough, enough, of all this folly, this cruelty and this superstition-into the white car now and out of town." But what the Mormons had done with the countryside sent him into an ecstatic chant: "And then below the most...