Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jones's boys, cocky little Bobby Riggs, insisted on taking money beyond expenses for amateur tennis-the unforgivable sin in Jones's eyes. "If you persist in this sort of thing, you're on your own," warned Jones. "Okay," said Bobby, "I'm on my own." He became national pro champion...
When the Soviet representatives meet ours at the conference table they are in effect meeting the last tottering princes of original sin; and they cannot give way to us without yielding divine principle. That is one reason why the Russians are so difficult to get on with in pagan assemblies that do not worship Marx, Lenin and Stalin...
...cautious politician's line. He told disgruntled Tories that their best hope for a return to power was not to commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied. "It's not good enough," said one young lady listener. "We want something more concrete...
...denominations-"they can live just as long as they want to live. There will be room for them all in an ecumenical church. . . . There is no wrong, no sin, in being a denomination. The sin is in erecting a denomination into a 'church...
...Howard Hyde Russell, 90, co-founder and longtime head man of the Anti-Saloon League, conductor of its first transcontinental "water wagon" tour (featuring a barfly-badgering male quartet) ; in Westerville, Ohio. He started a career in law, at 28 suddenly told his wife, "I am giving up sin! I am free!" Three years ago he predicted...