Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would mean so much if a magazine like yours, so influential, so widely read, would be careful of how it spreads this evil doctrine, against which we have just concluded a war in Europe...
...favorite, whose unruly red hair looks like a badly made fright wig, moved up into the Admiralty. Tall, sensitive, sensible Robert Cruikshank, 47, head of the American Division, moved to Fleet Street as political editor of the News Chronicle. Britain, which knows better than the U.S. that a necessary evil can merit praise, gave them a "well done...
Probably the chief fault of the first part is that it fails to grasp the tremendous depths of evil in Brutus Jones. While O'Neill draws him as a devil incarnate, who stops at nothing to achieve his end, the English version, played by Paul Robeson, is of an aggressive man, who committed his sins unavoidably...
...battle in New Britain. But its bloodiest job was still to come. In the early fall of 1944, under the late Major General William H. Rupertus, its men waded ashore from landing craft on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. On Bloody Nose Ridge in caves which were the "incarnate evil of this war," the Japs made their last stand. In stifling heat at least one regiment of the ist took as high as 60% casualties. The 81st Infantry Division ("Wildcat") moved in to relieve them. In three weeks 1,038 of the ist had been killed or were missing...
...Prosecution. The stories of G&246ring's treatment angered a lot of Britons and Americans. "Once and for all," cried the London News Chronicle, "Hermann G&246ring is an evil, cruel murderer." In the U.S., the usually mild Christian Science Monitor thundered: "Here is no captive entitled to the usual military courtesies. This man has murdered and plundered on an international scale." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman D. J. Flood: "This schweehturnie...