Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight again, or to multiply. I know that, when I speak as I do, I preserve the spirit of the Bible-at least of the Bible that is read from beginning to end and not only in its soft and gentle passages, because God is as terrible toward the evil as He is kind toward the good and humble...
...puzzler, Johnston admitted. He argued that of the two possible ways of meeting the costs (out of general revenues or from payroll taxes), the payroll taxes are the lesser evil. But he recommended that increase in the rate of such taxes should be imposed slowly and spread over a period of time...
Jose Ferrer, playing the wily villain of the play, Iago, threatens at various moments to steal the show from Robeson. He portrays with evil genius the wicked shrewdness and the twisted mind that produces the tragedy of "Othello" by mastering the simple strength of the Moor. By a crook of the finger, a clearing of the throat, a lift of the eyebrow, Ferrer probes the depths of the villain's complicated character more thoroughly than could a less capable actor by an entire speech...
...Pope, or anyone else to fling such texts at the British people and expect them to be followed literally as guides to conduct after five years of bloody war against a Satanic foe. And which texts are we to follow? What about Matthew 5:39-'Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also'? Should we never have gone...
...Farther down the evil-smelling road a fridenly brown-&-white puppy whose master lay under a dead horse, begged us to play with him. We paased on, untied a cavalry horse whose rider lay near by, his legs drawn...