Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporters found him bewildered, heartbroken : "I have done my best to repudiate wrong and evil in governmental affairs. .. . I have utterly failed. . . . Righteousness has been crucified and the people I love have condemned the things I held most sacred. ... I have lived according to my philosophy of government and now . . . the flag of that philosophy [is] trailing in defeat. ... I accept the . . . final verdict...
...coastal end, but farther south, near the Hill of Evil Men, Montgomery's 51st Highlanders streaked across the moonlit, wreck-strewn desert. What was left of Rommel's artillery tried to hold them back. The British infantry swept on. Dazed and shell-shocked Germans surrendered, turned and ran, or died in the sand beside their 88-mm. guns. Rommel's dam had burst...
From June through September western winds dump great rains on Dakar and the adjacent Senegalese coast. Then the harmattan (from the French-Arabic for evil) starts to blow from off the scorching Sahara. By November Dakar's lush greenery begins to parch. The sky is so blue that it looks black. Roads are heavy with dust, but passable for military travelers...
...Black Evil. Because Miss Martineau saw in America the hope of the worldwide struggle for freedom, she spoke out boldly against "evils as black as night" that crowded in on her as she moved South. Slavery she hated. She was horrified to think it could exist in the U.S. when Britain had already forbidden it. Friends warned her against entering the slave States where her Abolitionist opinions were known. She ignored the warnings, argued her way firmly, courteously through the South. Later on in Boston she met William Lloyd Garrison ("I thought Garrison the most bewitching personage...
...make a "supernova" of Sanders. "A super-nova," 20th Century-Fox explained, "is what astronomers call a big star which appears suddenly and shines with great brilliance." Instead, Sanders became one of the best scene stealers in the business and one of Hollywood's more sinister personifications of Evil (Man Hunt, The Son of Monte Cristo). As Evil, Sanders' greatest asset has been a suggestion of cold intelligence and a nasty sneer. Hounding Evil, as The Saint and as The Falcon, has been duller work...