Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their discoveries turned into weapons of war. They fear that they will be cast as the real villains of a World War III. This fear is well founded. Last week an anonymous* article in the Christian Century blasted the scientists as "modern mercenaries" who will serve any master, however evil, that helps them in their research...
...Washington." On the floor of the House, Ohio's Cliff Clevenger rapped: "Might well be there will be some Congress-tanned Missouri jackass hide on the Christmas market-come November." The Rev. Peter Marshall, the Senate's chaplain, spoke the final word: "You don't overcome evil by evil. Let the record speak for itself...
...Good or Evil? What will this knowledge mean to mankind, which lives in fear and bewilderment of the knowledge it already has? Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation (which financed the telescope), told the scientists gathered on Palomar Mountain...
...Televiewers last week got a look at a radio program in action, We the People. It looked worse than it sounded. A guest named Evil-Eye Finkle made evil eyes at the camera; Mrs. Spencer Tracy fastened her eyes to the script; Fred Allen mostly looked glum; Nat ("King") Cole sang Nature Boy and Composer Eden Ahbez showed his curls. Master of Ceremonies Dwight Weist went his own way, all but ignoring the prying eye of the telecamera...
...Friday (Wayne Morris); a B-girl* (Jeanne Cagney) who claims to have been prominent in burlesque; a fine old pathological liar (James Barton) in fringed buckskins; an itinerant sadist (Tom Powers) who has to supply, singlehanded, Saroyan's conception of the power and proportion of evil in this world...