Word: diabolicalness
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Many of the young men had been deported by the Germans to serve in labor battalions. Many of the people had fled. Vehicles loaded with goods and furniture cluttered the highways for miles around. But many-mostly the poor-had remained. They were the half-crazed, grief-shocked people who...
The week's most penetrating summation came from the Rabbinical Assembly's retiring president: ruddy, usually genial Dr. Max Arzt of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. Said he to the 100 assembled rabbis: "I submit that the world cataclysm of our day powerfully, if tragically, confirms the...
>"The most Catholic diocese of Poland, with more than 7,000,000 Catholics, will soon become a land of infidels. . . . This extermination is continuing without interruption and takes the shape of perverse sadism. ... It is a real extermination, conceived with diabolic evil and executed with unequalled cruelty. . . . We cannot help...
Even the Prince does not really settle these differences, since Machiavelli planted his ideas so diplomatically that readers expecting something diabolic in the book are sometimes disappointed. But since it came off the Vatican presses in 1532, politicians of all shades have found the Prince such a helpful manual of...
Intriguing European diplomats have long regarded their phlegmatic British rivals as men of diabolic cunning. They compress their admiration and envy into the epithet, perfidious Albion. Even Heinrich Heine warned against "the treacherous and murderous intrigues of those Carthaginians of the North Sea." Writer-Diplomat Harold Nicolson in his Diplomacy...