Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same. To Laski, the British socialist, the breakdown has been caused by a century of unbridled economic individualism and the cure is the traditional Marxist specific: let government take over the means of production. To Mises, the Austrian free-trade economist now exiled in the U.S., the evil that afflicts the world has one origin everywhere: too much government intervention in men's livelihoods. To Mises, Laski's way of thinking is mumbo jumbo, utterly divorced from reality. To Laski, Mises' ideas are about as useful as a stone hatchet. Soviet Heaven? Laski's book...
After one futile effort at reconciliation, the Fourth Termers organized their own party, denounced the opposition as "Republicans" and "evil men," and went on to name their own rival slate of delegates to the national convention...
...Hall is about to marry a lissome South Sea Islander (Maria Montez) when she is abducted by the Cobra People, a tribe of fanatic snake-worshippers, and taken to Cobra Island, whence few escape. Mr. Hall follows, learns that his fiancee's twin sister (Maria Montez) an evil High Priestess, has got the extras so hornswoggled by her snake dance that they march straight into the mouth of an active volcano. When Hall asks Maria's grandmother, the Island's powerless Queen, why her subjects act that way, he is told: "She appeals to their emotions...
...Franklin Roosevelt. "Franklin D. Roosevelt, like our own Winston Churchill, is a natural born war leader, a necessary evil, but more alive to constructive ideas than our very Anglicized Anglo-American Winston...
...gods. Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged her to read them, but she could...