Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story focuses on a small and successful part of the revolution. Garfield leads a band of Cubans in an intricate maneuver aimed at blowing up the president, vice-president, cabinet, and all the key officials with one bomb. The audience is constantly reminded that the government is extremely evil and that dynamiting its leaders is indeed an act of glorious patriotism...
...could to get our teachers again, but the law was against right. Now we have got new teachers who were never teachers before and mostly big Nazis in the Third Retch. But they were not in the Party! I can say to you that this is a great evil...
Shocking to read that dentists are plotting more anesthesia on us neurotic humans [TIME, March 28]. Horrifying to observe such regression in an otherwise progressive profession-and just when obstetricians have been teaching us mothers the evil of our abnormal ways in desiring anesthesia with childbirth! Surely we will love the old molar more if, while it is being yanked out, we are permitted to grit the others in full consciousness, and then perhaps hold it tenderly in our palm. Come now, let us have Dentistry Without Fear-and, TIME, please don't soften us with that old propaganda...
...most appalling to read your comments describing Dr. Shipler as an apologist for any group. He is truly a most remarkable man . . . Dr. Shipler and The Churchman expound Americanism in every line . . . They both abhor race discrimination and the evil politics of the Vatican, but most of all they cry out for world peace ... As for the Rev. Leon M. Birkhead, I have nothing but honest contempt...
Prepared Destruction. From there on, the novel moves with accumulating speed. Ratty little Fingal begins to tremble for his skin. He has "gone too far into evil ... a climax towards which his whole life in its indolence and evil has been foolishly shaping." Pelancey is gnawed by deeper fears: his clumsy conscience eats at his heart. "I'm warning you, Barty," he says, "you can't get rid of it. It's done . . . Only thing to do is to put up with it, and say nothing...