Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lions' den was not quiet enough, however, to put Daniel to sleep. Church leaders, asking the industry and labor men to think of their problems "from God's viewpoint," were occasionally disturbed by such cries from the floor as "Wipe out the evil of monopolistic capitalism!" The Council's new President Charles P. Taft, bossing his first meeting, had to be firm to keep delegates on the subject...
...threat on threat and a blue darkness settled on the land. In the San Juan valley the darker greens seemed black and the lighter green of grass, a chilling wet blue. 'Sweetheart' came rolling heavily along the highway and the aluminum paint on her gleamed with the evil...
...argument that a President in his third term will be in a position to establish a dictatorship contains little logic when it is considered that the same man would have had ample time to do so in his first two terms. Furthermore, if this limitation is enacted, any such evil-minded chief executive will not thus be frustrated in his attempt. He will merely have to hasten it so that the coup falls within his allotted two terms. No president with serious dictatorial designs will permit a constitutional article or amendment to stand in the way of fulfilling his plans...
...pretty well briefed in those twin evils with which Protestantism currently is striving; namely, secularism and denominationalism. There is a third evil. . . clericalism. The Protestant enterprise in the United States is preacher-ridden. What Protestantism speaks, the language, the voice and the meaning are clerical. What Protestantism does is planned by preachers. What Protestantism refuses to do is explained by preacher-reasons. The laity's vision, as is often alleged, may be foreshortened. But in the effort which he now must make to inch Protestantism forward, Mr. Taft will find himself more often afoul of the clergy...
...traditionally choleric and vehemently nationalistic nation the twin tempests of war and social upheaval have left a hot and churning sea of Polish emotions. The present government in carrying out long needed land reforms, in outlawing the classically Prussian type military elique, and in actively combatting anti-Semitism, an evil deeply rooted in the Polish scene, has created a wealthy, influential, and fanatical opposition. The purpose of this opposition is not the reconstruction of Poland but the reestablishment of the landed and military nobility that for so long dominated that country. Their armed underground has, it is said...