Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very greatly surprised," wrote Mountaineer Doughton, "to receive your letter. . . . The matters discussed . . . have all received our most careful consideration. ... As to mandatory joint returns . . . our whole desire was to place the family upon an equitable basis . . . and remove the admitted evil of tax avoidance...
...exposed, he warned. The defensive psychology of the Maginot Line "will defeat France." As to the vaunted French morale, "neither bravery nor skill can any longer achieve anything except as functions of equipment." Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain laughed off the book as "witticisms." General Weygand called it "evil." The Germans learned from...
...first and essential aim of the whole widespread struggle is to overthrow the tyranny of evil embodied in the rulers of Germany, and all who are engaged in the cause must needs be our allies...
...consider it hardly patriotic for Germans to be affiliated with any organization whose headquarters are in the U.S. (they blithely suggested that The Mother Church move from Boston to Berlin); 2) U.S. Christian Scientists at their annual meeting last month came out for the democratic system, declared that the evil forces in charge of the dictatorships exist "only as a subjective state of erroneous thought, and therefore possess neither power, permanence, nor reality"; 3) Nazis have always denounced Mary Baker Eddy's philosophy as an un-German "liberalistic ideology with a strong pacifist concomitant...
...Ministry, his job was to rule lines on to pay-sheets, "a duty he discharged with meticulous neatness, clad in a fancy-dress uniform." He had no conception of what was going on. Men by the millions were wrought into massive awareness of life & death; Rilke saw only evil and suffering, and little of that unless it frustrated him personally. He committed what is, for any great artist, a mortal error: "he underrated humanity...