Word: sacrosanctity
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Henry Ford was angry: his engineers had presumed to design a replacement for the already obsolescent Model T. They could not comprehend that the Model T was sacrosanct. Neither could they understand why Ford had pursued the idea of a car for the masses so singlemindedly, nor why it meant so much to him that he allowed no important change in it until 1927, after it had been overtaken by competitors. They never knew, either, why success turned him mean and vindictive. Now Anne Jardim, a social psychologist, has attributed this strange behavior to Ford's unwarranted conviction that...
...restrict them to eight years of service; 3) elect a Northern liberal instead of a Southern conservative to the Ways and Means Committee; 4) oust one incumbent chairman. Yet the ferment itself indicated the changing tone in the tradition-minded House of Representatives; the seniority system is no longer sacrosanct...
...institution is as sacrosanct as sport itself. Yesterday's stars don their old numbers, puff through a token contest, then retire to ovations. The game is arthritic, to be sure, but the locker room-ah, that is where the real show is, awash with boozy nostalgia...
...last week to change the Place de 1'Etoile to Place Charles de Gaulle. Judging from newspaper editorials and talk in the bistros, vast numbers of Frenchmen seemed to feel that the famous site of the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is too sacrosanct to be renamed for any individual, however great...
...think I'm more sacrosanct than any radical-liberal because my philosophy differs. I have never had a head-to-head encounter where the opposition hasn't scored some points. In that debate with the college kids [on the David Frost Show], I found out they are really highly motivated. They are not simply looking for publicity. But I don't think they have the depth of experience to speak with such assurance...