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Word: evil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here we have a great man who wanted God to help him preserve and protect civilization from something evil. The church is not accustomed to handling men of such power and masculinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...Lesser Evil. In Sunnyvale, Calif wearied by Bob Sarvis' long-winded, 20-minute protest over a $1 traffic fine, Judge Peter R. Bond paid the fine himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...first the action was an inter-dorm affair. Some 50 men were battling it out purely for sport but Sergeant Toomey sensed "inherent evil" and broke it up. Several stayed in the Yard however, and began to build a snow woman. A group of Cambridge high schoolers who were wandering through the Yard made what the Harvard men felt were "impolite advances" towards their work of art and after an exchange of opinions there was violence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nocturnal Brawl In Snow Shatters Stillness of Yard | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

...cannot believe, because you cannot understand, what it is to live under the Russians," she explained. "At first, you don't see anything evil. The pressure comes slowly, incalculably-until suddenly you know you must die or flee or betray." Last night Frau K. sneaked back to her town with little hope. She and the doctor can have no promise of being flown to the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: How Long Must We Wait? | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...would be idle to pin labels on these people, call them "democrats." They are no more than families in flight. Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: How Long Must We Wait? | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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