Word: transgressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know his Koran. "Don't try to teach me," he said. "I know it better than you." But the Koranic verses began to move Khaalis. Said one: "O, ye who believe, forbid not to yourselves the good things that God hath made lawful for you and do not transgress the limits; verily, God loveth not the transgressors." Another was particularly effective: "And let not the hatred of some people in shutting you out of the Sacred Mosque lead you into transgression and hostility on your part; help ye one another in righteousness and piety, but judge...
...Replaying highlights of games that viewers had not seen, ABC Monday Night Baseball showed at length the on-field fracas of the Chicago Cubs-San Francisco Giants game nine days after it occurred. Football cheap shots and beanball brawls, hockey fistfights and basketball square-offs - exercises of passion that transgress the rules - are a minor part of any sports event. Yet they are given long and detailed attention, instant and incessant replay...
...feed their pets better than the losers can feed their children," and if left to itself, "would sweep away all other values, and establish a vending machine society." Yet the market also permits decentralization of management, encourages experimentation and innovation, and limits the power of the state to transgress on personal freedoms; by doing so, it provides incentives for work and massive production that no other system can match. Indeed, Okun asserts, "any realistic version of American socialism ... would achieve only a small improvement in equality at the expense of a significant worsening of efficiency...
...strident urgency? "Election Day: November 1968," it blurts, and in the process hints to us that this is no mere sexual elbow-ribbing we are about to witness, but a story, an episode, an adventure that promises to make some comment on the more serious, more profound events that transgress in executive corridors and legislative cloakrooms...
...Twelfth Night is not without its weaknesses, they more often come from too much rather than too little effort--words which are almost too erudite in deliverance and grimaces which are too rubbery. Yet even these faults deserve to be forgiven, for, as the Clown would say, sins that transgress are patched with virtue...