Word: virtuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were untrue. She was not a mademoiselle at all, but a tall, slim widow named Marie Lecoq who worked as a waitress at the Café de la Paix. Furthermore, during the four years that British and Commonwealth troops were stationed in Armentières, she was more virtuous than many of her unsung sisters. The ditty got its start, in fact, when she roundly slapped a British officer who tried to kiss her in the café. Its first verse, written by a sergeant who watched the action...
Sexually repressed, still beautiful and inflexibly virtuous, Tula (Aurora Bautista) becomes a spinsterish "Aunt Tula" to her dead sister's small son and daughter. As decreed by custom in a stifling provincial town, she takes the bereft children and her handsome brother-in-law Ramiro (Carlos Estrada) under her roof. She rejects another suitor to fulfill what she sees as her duty, but cannot admit that Ramiro attracts her. Secretly she pores, moist-lipped and breathless, over a packet of impulsive love letters he wrote to her sister years earlier, yet is offended when the man himself appears...
...lust for power, wrested control from Johnson. They shed crocodile tears for Lincoln and rammed through a plan for Reconstruction which raped the South, using Negroes as puppets to plunder and destroy. Finally, in 1877, the last military governments were dismantled, leaving the South in the hands of virtuous whites and race relations in permanent tatters...
...build their elaborate machinery and package them in an abandoned potash mine. In a grotesque parody of that old literary device, the descent into hell, Amsel leads Matern and his black dog through his guilt factory. The black dog, who appears to embody both the bestial and the sturdily virtuous elements of the German nature, remains in Amsel's underworld as a Cerberus. But Matern is allowed to return to the surface and soap himself clean in what could be a mockery of the Jewish rites of forgiveness and absolution...
...masthead to you for editorializing the arrogant, unctuous Charles Percy into the virtuous hopeful of Republican politics. Knowledgeable Illinois voters have long noted Opportunist Percy's aggressive ambitions to be exceeded only by his unlimited ability to accommodate. Down with the "gentlemanly C"; for a man of proven principle and probity, I subscribe to Oxford Scholar Otto Kerner...