Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should make greed the sin of all sins, so that greedy people all over the planet are shunned. It is greed that leads to thievery, lying, cheating and stealing, which leads to wars, which leads to murders, which leads to all sorts of other things. Unless we succeed, I don't know that we are going to see a 22nd century...
Feudal lords ruled over western Europe, taking their share of the harvests of primitive agriculture and making the forests their private hunting grounds. Poaching was not simply theft (usually punishable by imprisonment) but a sin against the social order. Without the indulgence of the nobility, the peasants could not even acquire salt, the indispensable ingredient for preserving meat and flavoring a culinary culture that possessed few spices. Though a true money economy did not exist, salt could be bought with poorly circulated coin, which the lord hoarded in his castle and dispensed to the poor only as alms...
Jackson and Robertson both preached against the evils of sex before marriage. But when presented with evidence that their eldest children had been born within weeks of their marriages, both were forced to admit that they had participated in pre-marital sin...
...media for use in my Kennedy School study group, entitled, "Race and the Media." I knew I could rely upon these items to bolster my premise that the national and local news media remain deeply implicated in what New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley likes to call America's "Original Sin," which, in another time, was called the race problem...
...area where TV espouses unmistakably conservative values is the very one that Quayle chose to focus on: the family. Though single-parent households are common on TV (as they are in real life), the family bond is nearly always portrayed as strong and indispensable. If TV has any prevailing sin, it is its sunny romanticizing of that bond: no matter what the conflicts or crises, family love makes everything come out all right. If Dan Quayle were to look at TV a little more closely, he might find the stuff of Republican dreams...