Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proclaiming a five-day cease-fire during Tet, Viet Nam's festive New Year's holiday. Going along with the Reds, the government called a virtual halt to its own military operations. Troops poured into Saigon exploding firecrackers and firing rifles into the air (to ward off evil spirits), and the war ground to a strange near-standstill...
...radio speech afterward, Nkrumah vowed that the "evil men and neocolonialist agents amongst us shall be smoked out." Two days later a mob shouting "Ghana yes, Yankee no!" descended on the American embassy in Accra, hauled down the Stars and Stripes. A plucky Negro attache, Emerson Player, 31, of Denver, fought his way through the crowd, ran the flag up again. The government denied that it had anything to do with the incident and expressed "regret," but the assault was obviously officially engineered. The mob was led by a C.P.P. sound truck, and the local Tass correspondent arrived 25 minutes...
Spending a good deal of time on the HSA's public image, the committee said the "HSA has nothing to hide from this, community" but creates an impression of evil-doing from its secretive policies. The committee also blamed "unjustified rumors and accusations" for the HSA's current alledgedly low prestige...
...Christian call to make a mark, to take a stand, to be counted in the struggle against evil, is not an invitation to put the clock back to Victorian days. It does not mean that we are to become rigid and aggressive moralists with a strict and firm answer to every ethical problem. But it does mean that we are committed to the conviction that there is an answer to be found. We may not always know what is right and what is wrong, but we are to live by the belief that right and wrong are words with power...
...strange things begin to happen. What's to be done? "Destroy them," say British authorities. Officials of the U.S., Indian, Red Chinese, Russian and Nigerian governments agree that ruthless action is necessary. For these kids, brought from their homelands around the globe for scientific study, are extraordinary beings. Evil-eyed, they can will adults to do their bidding, even to commit murder and suicide. They can charge a dilapidated organ with such high-decibel energy that it becomes a ghastly weapon against their would-be assassins. Anything that one of the six sees, hears or reads...