These were the seeds of what Winston Churchill called "the most unsordid act in history."

Youre not exactly living an unsordid life yourselfare you?

Many of those men whose vision led to what Winston Churchill hailed as "the most unsordid act of history" are gone.

Indeed, while Truman led this country in what Churchill called the "most unsordid act in history," the stories about Iraqi reconstruction keep getting more sordid.

"A sociologist, Richard Titmuss, said the creation of the NHS was the most unsordid act of social policy during the 20th century.

There was a time not so very long ago when a policy decision by the President of the United States was saluted as the most unsordid act in the history of mankind.

Described by Sir Winston Churchill as "the most unsordid act of any nation at any time," it was, perhaps, the supreme achievement of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Correction: Many people, including Paul Bremer in recent testimony and myself in my Sept. 30 column, have linked Churchill's remark about the "most unsordid act" to the Marshall Plan.

What Churchill actually said in his speech to the House of Commons on April 17, 1945, after President Roosevelt's death, was: "Lend-Lease . . . will stand forth as the most unselfish and unsordid financial act of any country in all history."

Hansard 11 Nov. 1942, col. 28 (often misquoted as "the soft under-belly of the Axis") He [President Roosevelt] devised the extraordinary measure of assistance called Lend-Lease, which will stand forth as the most unselfish and unsordid financial act of any country in all history.

But there's plenty to love, from a slick collaboration with the Neptunes (who produced much of the album), to the lightheaded finale, "No Thang on Me," with Bootsy Collins, in which Snoop extols the unsordid pleasure of "coaching little kids out there on the football field."