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Condon's letter, of course, proved nothing against Oppenheimer's loyalty or integrity. But it did prove that McCarthy has no monopoly of smearing, and that one liberal scientist could impute the basest motives to another member of the great international fraternity...
...firm while Justinian stood helpless. Because her past continually plagued her, she put an end to brothels in a city that considered them indispensable. She even, so history tells it, built a sanctuary for prostitutes, and sent 500 there to repent at leisure. Of one thing not even her basest enemies accused her: unfaithfulness to Justinian...
...plans. He would continue to record, for the "benighted and tone-starved multitudes of the New World who lack the advantages of English musical culture." More important, he let them in on the anatomy of his vitriol: "There is something about a large gathering that brings out my basest instincts. Before a crowd of 1,000, I am malicious. Before 5,000, I am positively evil, and, facing a crowd of 10,000, I am compelled to say the most abominable things...
...offensive at all costs." But Bazaine's faith in the defensive, says Author Guedalla, became the faith of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain-the old man through whom "the abject philosophy of salvation by surrender . . . prevailed" in 1940, who "consummated a surrender far beyond the basest imputations of Bazaine's accusers...
...Allemande depuis I'Armistice) by Jacques Benoist-Méchin on the German Army revealed the conditions under which Germany had been living since the previous war, her despair, her sufferings, her will to revenge, her work, her success. . . . In France we ignored all that. . . . Munich was the basest of capitulations...