Word: sin
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...York, like any other city, needs a religious revival," cried Billy, his long hands molding the air, his hawklike, handsome face twisted with intensity. He has always fought shy of launching one of his full-dress crusades against New York's hard core of sin, but he evidently would like to try. As he spoke to the thousand-odd who answered his "invitation" to give themselves to Christ, Billy suggested how wonderful it would be if, some time in the future, they could do the same every night for three months. "But whether we come is not material...
...arena was packed with Heroes of Labor, Deserving Teachers of the People, Communist Activists. Cheers for the Canadians were diffident, and the game was rough. Czechs, who object to the Canadians' enthusiastic body checking, climbed up the backs of Penticton players and slashed with their skates, an unforgivable sin in the West. The Czech referees' whistles were remarkably silent. After the Vs had tied one game, 3-3, and won the next, 6-0, Penticton's player-coach, Grant Warwick, had to skate around the ice blowing kisses to calm the crowd...
...Freud himself found it necessary to postulate a kind of original sin," he said, referring to the father-slaying, mother-marrying impulses of the Oedipus complex. "Man does, in fact, belong to a guilty race, and that by inheritance...
...agente secreto federal), high-fidelity (alta fidelidad), and 3-D (pelicula cinematográfica tridimensional). He had to translate babbittry (concepto de la moral y las costumbres de la clase media), flying saucer (platillo volador o volante), Hoosier (natural o habitante del estado de Indiana), and water wagon (sin tomar bebidas alcohólicas). Even some old words caused trouble. In no bilingual dictionary, for instance, could Williams find a definition of solitary confinement; he came across it by accident in a magazine. Its Spanish equivalent: celda de castigo...
...like Babbitt, this figure should become a word in the English language, a Wayde will denote a man whose tragedy is lack of roots, whose sin is trying to be something...