Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oldest comics, Little Orphan Annie, first drawn by Harold Gray in 1924, is also one of the most topical strips. Gray died in 1968; the strips that run today in 300 papers were all drawn by him during the Depression of the 1930s. "S'po sin' we are pretty hard up right now," Annie recently told her companion Ginger, a flower vendor, in a rerun of a Nov. 19, 1936 panel. "What of it?" Annie continues. "We know doggoned well we're not goin' to stay that...
...settlement. Yet the Israelis seem to think that time is on their side and that they will benefit from the fact that the tempo of negotiations is bound to slow down as Washington heads toward an election year. "God is on the side of the patient. Impatience is a sin," said Allon last week, quoting an Arab saying, not least of all because of the possibility that a pro-Israeli Democratic candidate like Senator Henry Jackson...
...even the three days of jury selection that preceded this trial could eliminate anti-abortion sentiment from the panel. Another parochial sensibility was apparently active in their considerations. Even if Edelin is no killer, he is black. One juror quoted another as saying. "That nigger is guilty as sin." Apparently, some of the jurors viewed Edelin's race as a crime in itself. Furthermore the jury dealt with the judge's instructions haphazardly, substituting, for his stipulation that it must find Edelin guilty of "wanton and reckless" conduct in order to convict, its own speculation that he might have been...
...pumps for devotion inspired by awe and terror ("Mop up spilt religion! Let us have it in its original stony jars or not at all!"). At the same time he pushes graphic, adulterous sex as suburbia's best anodyne; coupling is sweetest with the ashen taste of sin. He sees women chiefly as attractive hurdles in the heavenly sweepstakes, where all the runners are male...
...this, Johnson sometimes denounced bugging as if it were original sin. "The worst thing in our society would be to not be able to pick up a phone for fear of it being tapped," he told one of his men. "I don't want any wiretapping," he said when he was designing the Safe Streets Act. However, Senator John McClellan talked him into including a provision for wiretapping. The Congress then provided more authority than agreed upon, so Johnson ordered the Justice Department not to use that power...