Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There have been men of ill repute who . . . have succeeded, through stealth and armed force, in securing control of existing local unions . . . using the power they have acquired for il legal purposes. This is a most difficult evil to eradicate. It calls for the application of every means available...
...plea is not for military participation, but merely for realism. The term "short of war" is meaningless, for we have already committed acts of war. Our choice, therefore, is not between war or peace. It is between a lesser evil and a greater...
Meticulous little Director William Wyler has packed his picture with atmosphere, an elusive quality for movies. He keeps his audience strained with a most effective dramatic time bomb - the constant feeling that something very bad is about to occur. Bette Davis helps with a display of psychopathic evil as repulsive as her Mildred in that other Somerset Maugham cinema success, Of Human Bondage. Herbert Marshall, more limber than usual, behaves appropriately for a true-blue British colonial. James Stephenson, hitherto confined to furnishing British background, gives the part of the lawyer a distinguished, neatly devised piece of acting...
...evil like cancer exist if all that God created was good?" challenged a heckler. "Cancer is not an evil," retorted Roman Catholic Father David I. Dorsch of Baltimore. "Sin alone is evil, because sin alone keeps man from his final...
...what if the Soul do ill? So it keep innocence To err of its own will, Such is the virtue of that spirit Evil itself turns excellence If but Soul weave it, and Soul wear...