Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they merely pretending to obey American orders while actually persevering in their evil intentions? A. No people likes to truckle to alien rule. The Japs are no exception...
...killing all the occupants - the greatest loss of life in any U.S. plane any where. A C46 struck a radio tower at Peiping and crashed. There were other casualties when superstitious Chinese walked across the runways in front of whirring propellers, hoping that the blades would chew up the evil spirits which they believed were following them. Some propellers missed the shadows but devoured the substance. But loss of life was amazingly small in proportion to the magnitude of the undertaking. Army airmen again had reason to point to the achievement as the greatest ever, of its kind. All that...
...Osservatore Romano's unauthorized outburst regretted that the creators of the bomb had not followed da Vinci's example (with his plans for the submarine) and destroyed it, on the ground that mankind is too evil to be trusted with such power. Later, men "high in Vatican circles" spoke of "useless massacre,"deplored "the circumstances which have compelled" the use of the bomb. London's Catholic Herald recalled Pope Pius' "Christian distinction between legitimate and illegitimate weapons...
...England's Roman Catholic Father Dale Roberts stoutly insisted: "No true Christian can accept the principle that essential evil can be wrought to attain a good...
...haggis would be unthinkable, haggis without meat impossible. Now they could boil a sheep's stomach bag (with the windpipe hanging over the side of the pot to carry off impurities), stuff it with ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, oatmeal and seasoning, and boil again. The steaming, evil-looking haggis would be brought to the banquet table to the skirl of bagpipes and the words of Bobby Burns's ode to "the great chieftain o' the puddin' race...