Word: demonism
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...gave Big Tobacco much of a chance on April 8 when it declared war on Congress. Least of all John McCain. The Arizona senator was the good guy, after all, a war-forged Republican rebel with an unsold conscience and an unassailable cause: saving America's children from the demon's weed for just $1.10 a pack. And for a while, most Republicans were too scared to argue...
...came down to who wanted it more, and I think we proved it was us," Ezra said. "Trinity is our nemesis, so it was like killing a demon...
...college] I just thought of him as someone who was a football player, remote... He seemed like the demon investigator, not someone who cared for small people," Lewis says. "I was completely wrong. He was, underneath a hard shell he put on, an extremely tender person," Lewis adds, noting that his opinion changed as he watched Kennedy promote civil rights as attorney general...
...later sermon Gomes names fear as the culprit: "Everybody is fearful, terrified of some public or private demon...It is fear not only holds us together, but keeps us from being whole." On the threshold of a new millennium, Gomes worries that this sense of fear may be particularly potent. People are anxious that "There is a limitation to improvement. Our circumstances, instead of getting better, and better, may be getting worse and worse." But with the optimism that is the preacher's hallmark, Gomes offers his congregation an inoculation: emphasis that "you are not stuck in materialistic world...
Those who do not enjoy descriptions of scientific conferences or are not terribly enthralled by the second law of thermodynamics will find it difficult to move beyond "Computation," the first part of Norretrander's book. The author lingers on science's failed attempts to exorcise "Maxwell's Demon." an imaginary creature who can create heat without doing any work, thus circumventing the second law by simply separating molecules based upon their relative velocities. Norretranders gives a more common-place analogy, whereby one can heat a room simply by opening the window to let fast molecule in and slow molecules...