Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to find a scapegoat on whose shoulders we may lay the miseries which Germany has brought upon the world . . . I am more and more convinced that the worst evil genius of that country is not Hitler or Bismarck or Frederick the Great, but Martin Luther. . . . Lutheranism is essentially German. ... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful. . . . The Law of Nature, which ought to be the court of appeal against unjust authority, is identified with the existing order of society, to which absolute obedience is due. . . . We must hope that the next swing of the pendulum will...
...Dewey had been well-known to the U.S. for seven years. His fame as the fearless young prosecutor was secure: millions had read of him as the very model of the modern District Attorney marshaling the forces of right against the hordes of evil. This year they learned more of the details of his rapid success story, from small-town editor's son to governor of the biggest state...
...mountainside caves which the Japs defended so doggedly were the incarnate evil of this war. They were built at staggered levels so that it was almost impossible to reach one without being fired at from another. These American kids are incredible. They went in despite their losses, fully conscious of the horror ahead of them, suffering unspeakably from continuous, 24-hour-a-day fighting. But it was even more than-they could take...
...China has strived to get the full benefits of industrial revolution without incurring the accompanying evil by-products," said Chang, a member of the People's Political Council. "As Dr. Sun remarked, our immediate problem is not economic inequality, but economic poverty; not a fight against capitalists, but the prevention of the rise of capitalists in the future...
Johnston does not want social security extensions (hospitalization, sickness benefits, etc.) carried out federally, as provided by the Wagner-Murray-Dingall bill. Instead, he wants additions and improvements made by state and local governments, to minimize "the evil effect of bureaucracy and remote Washington control...