Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room, a thin, taut refugee and his handsome wife sat before an immigration inspector. The man answered questions rapidly. He was a skilled instrument maker. He had belonged to a union-but never to the Communist Party (membership in the Communist Party is the one sin that the inspectors, under the McCarran-Walter Act, can never forgive). What was his religion? The man and his wife paled with fear. "We are Jews," he whispered. The inspector nodded. Down went his hand-to stamp approval on their entry papers. Speechless, the man and wife arose, reached for their children and hugged...
...cynical reporter one day in the library of De-Golyer's impeccably furnished Mexican-style palace in suburban Dallas. Standing in the huge, 15ft-high room choked to the ceiling with some 20.000 volumes-which ranged from rare editions of Copernicus and Francis Bacon to the best sin gle private collection of works about the Southwest-Mr. De assumed a country-boy pose, pshawed that he bought the books for the pretty red bindings, never read a thing. Tough, stubborn, quizzical, Mr. De delighted in pulling such switches; he could sound in turn like a reactionary, a radical...
Henderson sees that Shaw's derision of love, romance, sexual passion, patriotism and family solidarity was the calculated result of a determined intellectual effort to make men look freshly at all they had previously accepted without question. Shaw repeatedly committed that sin against society for which Socrates was condemned to death: he made the worse seem the better part. As Albert Einstein once put it, Shaw had "succeeded in gaining the love and the joyful admiration of mankind by a path which for others has led to martyrdom...
...Cross." It is perhaps not too far-fetched to suggest that Simone Weil's obsession with becoming "the equal of God" was, on its less attractive side, a form of spiritual social-climbing, and that her willful, lifelong pursuit of wretchedness was the age-old sin of pride in the paradoxical guise of a bitter humility, that of wishing to be crucified in a surrogate Crucifixion...
...this unresolved note, the Cabinet adjourned. In the House of Commons, the Opposition hammered at the government on the difference between what Eden said and what he did. Eden had said Britain was protecting the canal; but the British broadcasts from Cyprus were telling Egyptians: "You have committed a sin, that is, you placed your confidence in Nasser and his lies." Said Labor's Nye Bevan: "Here you have not a military action to separate Israeli and Egyptian troops. Here you have a declaration of war against the Egyptian government in the most terrible terms...