Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with brown sugar, freshly ground and powdered and run through a cloth bag, after you stir it into boiling water heated over a charcoal fire. That is the real thing and easily worth 10? (un real), for it is well said to be as sweet as love, black as sin and hot as hell...
Communists must have snickered. As every good Communist knows, '"deviationism" is the primary sin in Moscow's decalogue. But Henry's little puff of DDT seemed to please Rex Tugwell, who said he was now "very happy...
...Socialists committed the unforgivable political sin: they sold out, and then refused to stay bought. What they wanted desperately was postponement of local elections scheduled for October. They hoped the voters would forget the irresponsible Socialist desertion that had brought about the fall of Premier Robert Schuman's government (TiME, July...
Last week, at the Vancouver convention of the Canadian Federation of Convent Alumnae, strait-laced Archbishop Duke spoke his mind on still another human frailty: bathing beauty contests. Said he: "They are unbecoming and could be the occasions of sin ... They are barred to Catholic women who realize in conscience this great danger ... It lowers the dignity and esteem due to women to parade them and measure them . . . like cattle...
Nevertheless, the irony, though irony can never be explicit, is there: though Scobie thinks of himself as a sinner, he never realizes what his real sin is-purblind selfishness, appalling spiritual pride1. His "pity" carries him to such morally insane heights that he pities his fellow men -and women-instead of loving them; he ends by pitying...