Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golly," I cry, "those goddam nuns, missionaries and doctors are really getting what they deserve. What are they but a bunch of lousy outside agitators, not even of the same race, going in there trying to change the Congolese way of life? Don't they have enough sin and disease back where they came from? Why don't they clean up the mess at home before bothering other people...
...insisted that she had simply given the pastor a daughterly peck on the cheek. But the church elders measured the offense against Jesus' words that "one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Unless Van der Wiel publicly confessed his sin, they warned, "we will chase you out of town." To keep his job, Van der Wiel agreed to accept the punishment...
Volpe's unexpected triumph proves that, at the top of the ticket anyway, the Commonwealth's electorate can distinguish Barry Goldwater from native Republicans--a million voters split their tickets for Johnson and Volpe. Brooke's victory also demonstrates that, at least in theory, the voters are against sin and corruption (though they re-elected the two indicted Councilors and the felon running for the General Court...
Speaking to a Dunster House Forum, Durr said that the South's Bible Belt heritage means that "Being saved is half the fun of sinning." Because of the South's obsession with sin and repentance, it interprets any criticism as confession of having sinned. Thus, Durr said, a Southerner who speaks out on the race problem is considered to be accusing the South of sinning. Ostracism faces anyone so bold...
...presidency of the Republican Party." As for his own speeches, Humphrey chortled: "I never know whether the audience likes them, but I sure do." He even had fun with his hecklers, smiling down on groups of sign-waving Goldwaterites and saying: "They carry their badge of political sin as if they come to repent...