Word: sin
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...listeners had better change sides and submit. This was often terrible to hear, for the news in the papers confirmed it. He was not only alarming, he was ugly; he opened a vista into a mean life. . . . He went further than that smug mockery of our plight. He sinned that sin which is the dark travesty of legitimate hatred . . . just as incest is the dark travesty of legitimate love...
Probably most intriguing to the U.S. reader are the rich specimens mined from out-of-the-way pockets of the British isles. If E. Glyn Lewis' essay on Welsh literature and Rhys Davies' rich, Chaucerian story about a sin-hunting minister are at all representative, this section is having a lively cultural revival. Precisely why this nook of the world should be so awake when so many other parts of it are dozing will prove a neat problem for some future historian...
Asked about the possibility of open war, he stated that Arabs from the entire Near East would join to expel the Zionists. Kheiry warned that "the United States and the United Nations will regret the sin they have committed; If not now, in the future...
...plainest of the picture-book Plain People. Their men wear buttonless dark blue overalls and jackets, wide-brimmed black hats and beards. Their women go in bonnets and shoe-length black dresses. With fierce rectitude, they forbid themselves automobiles, electricity, telephones and tractors, rather than engender the sin of pride...
...Eight denied the doctrine of original sin; 30 decided that there was "a tendency toward evil in human beings...