Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Oklahoma when it was opened for settlement. James Kincaid arrives at the site intended for Tulsa City only to find that Bogart had jumped the gun and had already staked the claim. Bogart, however, gladly relinquishes his claim in return for the gambling rights of the city. The evil monster thrives in Tulsa and practically controls the city...
...which few Quakers would care to express in words, but of which Robert Barclay once wrote: "When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people, I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it, I found the evil weakening in me, and the good raised...
...pfifltriggi to live happily together, each contributing his special mite to the common good. Hmãn had also lost his willingness to welcome death as a beautiful redirecting of divine energy, his faculty for recognizing the "shape" of the spirit, and of distinguishing between appearance and reality. The evil spirit, concluded Oyarsa, expressed himself through the two scientists, one of whom loved nothing but gold, while the other loved humanity only in the abstract. Back on earth, "the silent planet," it must be Ransom's duty to fight these men wherever he found them...
...mania. "They" were trying to "choke me." Sometimes when he said this his hands would fly to his throat and he would stagger backward, screaming. A psychologist finally learned who "they" were: the people of Europe. Screamed Hess: "Like grass, they grow, higher and higher. They think we are evil and they hate us. The war goes on longer and they get stronger and stronger. From all over the hands reach up for our throats. They want to choke...
...pint of bitter. The Nazi, who gets killed in spite of his telescope sight and his fancy camouflage, is smart and dangerous, but loses his nerve. The butcherlike utilization of his corpse as a decoy clinches the picture's simple lesson: killing is no contest between good and evil, admits of no valuations except those of craft and self-preservation...