Word: virtuously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cathy goes on. "I'm not too clear about the other two. I think one was poor and virtuous and the other one was very smart, or some combination like that...
Megan laughs, "Well, I'm poor and you're virtuous, and God knows both of us are smart, so I guess it'll work out all right...
...19th Amendment seemed to promise much. It had long been urged not only as a matter of women's rights but as a purification of the political system. Its supporters claimed that women, because of their supposedly higher nature, would vote for measures humane and virtuous, and that they would do so en masse. "The civilization of the world is saved," gushed Democratic Presidential Nominee James Cox in 1920. "The mothers of America will stay the hand...
...clear that hers is in truth a cri de coeur for the unassuageable pain of growing old before she has even grown up. If this is the heartland, it is as seen by Freud: the husband lusts after the girl and fantasizes about her as the virtuous virgin that his wife was not; the wife acts kittenish even with the milkman; the girl selects lovers, then discards them. Middle age is portrayed as a time of aching sexual frustration, made more acute by the close-at-hand vision of youth. Some of Inge's kitchen-sink exposition seems dated...
...enfant terrible of the House floor, right-wing Republican Newt Gingrich, 40, of Georgia, scales the rhetorical heights by quoting Winston Churchill about the years before World War II: "The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...