Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tonight I want to persuade you to vote Republican, not because we are more patriotic, or more virtuous, or more opposed to violence than others, but because this Administration has considerable achievements to its credit and they deserve support. We have brought home many Americans, and intend to bring home more, from the throes of a tragic war. By standing firm, this Administration placed America in the role of mediator rather than of intruder during the crisis in Jordan. We are negotiating with Russia to limit strategic arms production. At home, we have taken in hand the difficult, unpopular...
...really wonder about football giving you all those virtues. I don't think the big stars are such admirable people. Look at Dick Butkus. After the amount of football he's played, you'd think he'd be one of the most virtuous guys around. Instead, he's an animal...
...view of the author of this early flyer the employees' strike was clear evidence of the University's mistreatment of its workers ("Harvard University uses scab labor and maintains oppressive working conditions"). You, the students, were called to a show of virtuous indignation to help set the grievous wrong right. And I remember certain young members of the faculty marched with the dissident students on this occasion...
...where the child can reach it, for example. Battering parents inflict terrible, sometimes mortal injury without expressing guilt, and they often voice open hostility to the child. In contrast, the mother of a burned child, in Mrs. Martin's words, typically shows "marked guilt, which helps preserve a virtuous front (necessary because the child is not felt to be all bad) and wards off conscious recognition of destructive impulses, protests the strength of her positive feelings for the child, and at the same time punishes the mother for her destructive impulses." In short, the mother of the burned child...
...view of the author of this early flyer the employees' strike was clear evidence of the University's mistreatment of its worker's ("Harvard University uses scab labor and maintains oppressive working conditions"). You, the students, were called to a show of virtuous indignation to help set the grievous wrong right. And I remember certain young members of the faculty marched with the dissident students on this occasion...