Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through Delegate Warren Austin, explained that under its Constitution people can speak good or evil, truth or falsehood. Warmongers and peacemongers had free rein, and throughout U.S. history, especially recent U.S. history, the peacemongers won the arguments. The New York Times said: "What is the real cause of uncertainty in the world today? Is it words or is it deeds? We think it is deeds...
Today, the bomb and the revolutionary troops are as unremembered as William Stoughton's evil reputation, and Stoughton Hall continues to look down in respectable near-anonymity at students trekking past the Old Pump...
Belief in the omnipotent effects of this cure-all reforms a corrupt mayor, causes his daughter to see the light, and returns to the Mudhens their ace pitcher after an ill-started affair with an evil member of the opposing team. Sweetness, light, and reform are spread among all the citizenry...
Gilding the lily, the athletic directors have placed the boys half-way up and on the sidelines for the Rutgers game, instead of tucking them away somewhere deep in the bowl where the game is but a rumor. The cynics who look for evil motives may try to content themselves with the one hitch of a 25 cent tariff on each boy, but that goes to the government by law, and nobody around Cambridge receives a cent...
...fury might come from, an utterly unpolitical cause. This week, in tense Calcutta and elsewhere in Bengal, worshipers of the goddess Durga will celebrate her festival with clay images and ceremonial parades. Durga is the good side of the same ambivalent goddess of which Kali is the evil face.* In this same week Moslems will celebrate Id-el-Atha, their version of the story of Abraham and Isaac. Usually they sacrifice cows, but this week many, lest the Hindus be offended, plan again to sacrifice sheep.† Even so, the two coincident festivals might touch off killing in Bengal, which...