Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over. ... I am not able to share those sanguine hopes. . . . Speaking under every reserve and not attempting to prophesy, I can imagine that some time next year-but it may well be the year after-we might beat Hitler. By which I mean beat him and his powers of evil into death, dust and ashes...
...swam five Mediterranean miles from Gozo to Malta in 4 hours 48 minutes, "and at the finish showed no signs of fatigue." Until he resigned as High Commissioner for the Western Pacific in 1942, Sir Harry spent 34 years in the British Colonial Service learning about seas, islands, and evil men. From his London retirement last week, Sir Harry spoke on what to do with Axis chiefs after the war: "The ideal place of residence for them . . . would be Falcon Island in the Pacific. It is a volcanic type and sinks into the sea for a period of years...
...cast in general is up to its great dramatic roles and Mabel Paige is particularly phoney and constantly intoxicated mother. It's well worth the price of admission. And, of yes, there's that exciting little sequence where Helen Walker pulls up her skirts to trap an evil-minded Nazi gunman...
Since Sept. 3, 1939, little Britons in pubs and big Britons in clubs have debated whether the whole German people are to blame for Nazi Germany and World War II, or whether only evil, powerful men and their dupes are responsible. Last week, in a House of Lords debate, smooth, grim Lord Vansittart restated his familiar view that all Germans are accomplices and that, whatever happens to them as individuals, Germany should be destroyed "utterly and forever as a military power." Winston Churchill's grey advocate and Lord Chancellor, Viscount Simon, promptly made it clear that on this issue...
Franklin Roosevelt's Amen was loud and clear above the others. It boomed out again at the close of the Prayer for Social Justice: "Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression...