Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's pro-Eisenhower Daily News was irked by the "tender concern"' Shown for the President since his illness by "practically all the New-Fair Deal" politicians and journalists. "It would be a sin and a shame, according to these folks," said the editorial, "for this lovely character to be high-pressured and dragooned by callous G.O.P. politicians into running for a second wearing, tearing White House term . . . he's earned a rest . . . and sob, sob, sob. What puzzles us is that you hear no similar moans and groans about Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Senator Johnson...
...issue of prostitution brought a vociferous division between respectable citizens and those who gain from Pnompenh's attractions as a wide-open city (Madame Choum intends to enlarge the city's finest brothel, now that Saigon has been shut down as a sin capital). The distinguished wife of a provincial governor snatched the microphone from Norodom's hands and told the congress: "Let's face the truth. We know it's impossible to suppress effectively prostitution in our country...
...employees who plead the Fifth Amendment "for reasons of their own," the Times said it would "judge each case on its own merits," taking into account the employee's job and how well he performs it. Said the Times: "We do not believe in the doctrine of irredeemable sin. We think it possible to atone through good performance for past error." At week's end, though the hearing transcript was still under scrutiny by its executives, the Times had made no further dismissals...
...Methodists. Among those polled, total abstinence from alcohol was endorsed by 68.9%, slightly more than were opposed to breaking the speed limit (67.7%). But despite a "clear warning of the church against games of chance," a few more than 50% saw nothing wrong in bingo, and the onetime Methodist sin of dancing is now frowned on by only 15.2%. Condemned by about 95%: profanity and the misrepresentation of a product "in trying to make a sale...
American Spelling Book fed him huge doses of phonics, and with their high-toned tales about the perils of sin, Mc-Guffey's Readers did the same. But by the middle of the last century, the educators had already begun to revolt...