Word: evil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...delegates got some evil-smelling doses to swallow. Leader of the House of Commons Herbert Morrison had sent up from London a cabinet decision that manual workers in nationalized industries for a period of two years must not even discuss pension plans with the nationalized boards running their industries. Said a Durham miners' leader: "Mind you, it's not that we trade unionists want to force the government into doing something the nationalized industries can't afford. We'd be perfectly willing to hold an inquiry on the point. But we're not going...
...those who doubted the regeneration of the Japanese and the Germans, there remained a hope that the Western world had been partly cleansed by World War II. It had clearly brought a recognition of evil back into a world that had been bemused for a hundred years with the idea of automatic, illimitable progress (i.e., heaven by osmosis). The world of 1949 was not one to call forth admiration; but it was no longer a smug world. It had not solved its problems, but it had begun to face them...
...appeared, could go down as well as up. He could go all the way down to Buchenwald, and beyond that to the place where he could say he did not know whether he or another was guilty of Buchenwald. Without World War II's dreadful lesson of evil, Western man would not have been able to recognize Communism's evil, even cloudily...
...made by going around rocks. The Western world had found what it wanted to avoid. In the warlike peace, it had discovered a little of a new pride in its old standards. It had almost learned new humility in which the Germans and the Japanese, for all the evil they had done, might become comrades in the struggle against evil...
After the local doctor had tried his few remedies on the girls ("physics" made no difference), he weightily declared that "The evil hand is on them." With these chilling words the witch-hunt began...