Word: sin
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...stand a touch of sin ... a naughty trifle now & then, just to liven things up. They have always enjoyed such tidbits in British politics, the record of which abounds with magnificent exaggerations, metaphors and friendly libels. American political campaigns have always been a quadrennial circus...
Jealous of his state's strait-laced divorce law, he charged that Otis Williams & wife were still living in sin. Once again they were arrested, tried, found guilty. Once more they took refuge in appeal. But last week the Supreme Court ruled against them. Said Justice Felix Frankfurter for the 6-to-3 majority: each state can determine for itself whether it will accept the divorce procedures of another, or reject them...
Unperturbed. Boss Hague disregarded such criticism for broader subjects less susceptible of factual proof. There was sin abroad. (Hague is against sin: he allows no prostitutes, burlesque shows or nightclubs in Jersey City.) There was the city's youth. Brassily the mayor intoned: "I have never developed into a reformer, but I have always tried to set an example for the younger folk...
...which is probing the meat shortage, stepped dapper, sandy-haired Wilbur Laroe, spokesman for the 700 companies in the National Independent Meat Packers Association. Said Mr. Laroe: the OPA is largely to blame for the meat shortage because it has followed a "social philosophy which regards profits as a sin...
...tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would take a daily walk of 20 miles at top speed. At best, he would find release from "the sin of thinking for himself about religion" by turning his worries into innocent literary fantasies - such as the remarkable passage from his lesser-known children's book, Sylvie and Bruno...