Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breath for the whole campaign, fearing that some new evidence might come out about the milk scandal. It may be contrary to the system of justice, since he was acquitted, but there are still a lot of folks with a gut feeling that John Connally was guilty as sin...
...sell their books, moneychangers in some of the 263 booths were offering mawkish, illuminated paintings of Jesus, T shirts that proclaim HE IS RISEN, PRAISE THE LORD paper napkins and LAST JUDGMENT AT HAND bumper stickers. At convention concerts, Gospel crooners sang and spoke of their conversion from sin...
...seems that the outstanding evil of our age is that society has lost the sense of sin. We do not mean to say that more immoral actions are being committed today than in the past, but that blindness to moral values and an indifference to the question of good and evil are among the signs of the times. This is what has caused so many Americans to approach the most horrible crimes as if these acts were simply the reflection of another viewpoint or the result of environmental pressures. In their rush to become acceptable members of society...
...adequate sense of evil. In the Enlightenment tradition, evil is explained away as a curable flaw. But even in the puritan and evangelical tradition, the American sense of evil is curiously shallow and optimistic, more concerned with behavior (sex or drink, for example) than with the deeper states of sin. The devil can be banished, and evil can be fought; evil is seen almost as a mere "problem" to be solved. There is little sense that evil is a constant presence and inextricably mixed with good. That is why every new American generation seems to discover evil...
...sin is again de same−American Night Priparatory School for Edults. (Batter it should say school for greenhorns, becawss here is all pipple like me who are not livink lonk in U.S.) Comms again our titcher, Mr. Pockheel, to explain de hoddest pots gremmer, spallink, pernonciation an' de minnink English voids. But Rosten is in every pedge improvink. New fallow students he gives me. (Bloom, Tarnova, Matsoukas, Perez isn't inoff?) New titchers he puts in, new lassons, new voids...