Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from University Hall, that cutting of classes will be dealt with more harshly in the future, the entire student body is expected to cry out in defense of one of its most cherished liberties. But the rights of the undergraduates are not being needlessly trampled on, nor is an evil genius trying to return the Harvard student to the state of regimentation that he had hoped to escape after graduating from high school. The conditions that made leniency towards class attendance possible and advisable in the past have almost totally disappeared and with them, the former policy must...
Across the sands of Egypt the bagpipes of the 51st Highlanders skirled. By the Hill of Jesus, by the Hill of Evil Men, military policemen in white gloves waved yellow lanterns to guide the tanks along the paths which sappers, many of whom gave their lives, had cleared through German minefields. British armor and infantry poured through...
...brief career at the side of the anti-Axis powers he had wrought good and evil. Dakar had fallen to the Allies without a shot. The progress of the U.S. campaign had been sped. But Darlan's assumption of power had also unleashed a storm of anger and criticism among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold...
...suppose the least Christmasy Christmas of all will be George Johnston's in New Guinea. Steamy jungles, evil-smelling swamps and man-high kunai grass are no substitutes for holly wreaths, nor the whine of Jap bullets for jingle bells, as most all the men out there will tell you (you'll find Johnston's story on Christmas with General MacArthur's men in Buna on page...
...which are ragged now from repeated bombing. There is nothing else to see but the cloud-spattered tropic sky above the vast bowl of sun-drenched, emerald-green jungle, which is interspersed with patches of yellow, man-high kunai grass. In this incredibly tangled mass of rank vegetation and evil smelling swamps, thousands of men, Americans, Australians and Japanese, are engaged in one of the most merciless and most primeval battles...