Word: uprightness
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...This man for months had accosted our students, parked in front of our houses, and scared our professors' little children. A few nights before the set up, Hugh McIsaac, a wonderful, upright, American boy, a veteran, had told this man that if he didn't stop his persecution of us he would 'push him through the wall,' He said it in righteous anger, not meaning it literally, but as any red-blooded man would...
...left. Then Leonard found empty sleeping pill bottles and notes indicating suicide. Leonard and the police spent a couple of hours making a routine search and filling out forms. At last they called the morgue. Mrs. Butler's body was strapped to a stretcher and carried in an upright position in the tiny elevator to the street...
...upright citizens (I do not speak for the horizontal tavern-frequenters) are prouder of their 22 churches than of the six bars. And of the fact that we have been a center for oil activity during the past 15 years. And of the $1,500,000 high school now in process of construction. And of the new 110-bed hospital which is to be built with combined county and federal funds . . . And of our native sons among whose number are three major generals...
...this September primary. We hope to do as well in November and thus become as effective a political organization as is the Cambridge Civic Association across the River. We are trying to unite Democrats who are willing to support qualified Republics, Republicans who will vote for honest and upright Democrats, and Independents who will vote for good men of either party. We are presenting to the electorate a slate of candidates for the City Council which include nine qualified gentlemen representing every geographical area and every prominent religious and ethnic group. We have candidates of both political parties...
...Falcon-eyed," upright and just, he stalks the pages of Asch's novel in many moods: rapt and docile before God's voice in the burning bush, prophetic and lordly as he pronounces plagues on Egypt, exalted as he receives the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, toweringly wrathful as he descends after 40 days and nights to find the children of Israel cavorting idolatrously before the golden calf. Humbly indomitable in faith, he is most moving when he prays for his wayward and wandering people...