Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christians do not accept this war as a necessary evil. We approve it as a righteous war, which God commands us to wage ardently...
...lungs. Friends could visit him for no more than a quarter-hour at a stretch. One night his wife woke him from a particularly violent nightmare. "I was dreaming a fine bogey tale," he told her, and at once began sketching out the story of Jekyll and his evil companion-up to the transformation scene, where he had been awakened...
Stevenson's story of the dual nature of man and the tendency of evil to triumph over good was no instant gift of a dream. It began in his childhood home in Edinburgh. There were a bookcase and a chest of drawers in his room made by a notorious split personality called Deacon Brodie-a respectable cabinetmaker by day who used his nights for thievery. The author never forgot the stories his nurse made up for him around the Deacon's furniture. These, together with a Frenchman's treatise on the subconscious, which he read years later...
What was to be done? There was only one way out, said the President-set a ceiling on prices. Said he: "In this way alone can the nation be protected from the evil consequences of a chaotic struggle for gains which must prove either illusory or unjust, and which must lead to the disaster of unchecked inflation...
...move would seem to be on Thailand. Under pressure, the Government of Premier Luang Pitul Songgram granted Japan a 10,000,000-baht ($3,600,000) loan, recognized Manchukuo as a token of friendship. (It was carefully explained that the recognition of Manchukuo had been chosen as a lesser evil than recognizing Puppet Wang Ching-wei at Nanking.) Japan continued pressing demands-demands which, if accepted, could end only in the capitulation of Thailand...