Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arsenal (1) if threatened with all-out war, and (2) if faced with nuclear blackmail in a limited conflict. By making all strategy contingent on the former, we have failed to come to grips with the latter. "Against an opponent known to consider nuclear war as the worse evil, nuclear blackmail is an almost fool-proof strategy." Juxtapose this statement with the following: "To rely entirely on the continued good will of another sovereign state is an abdication of statesmanship and self-respect"--and you have the central point of Kissinger's critique...
...growth and full employment. But, more important, their theories range to the level of ethical national choices. They hold that the quality of American life-the level of education, the extent of unemployment and poverty-is a prime responsibility of government. Thus they see taxes and budgets not as evil or good in themselves, but as instruments for doing the things that they think government ought...
...Evil. The U.N. forces on the spot seemed paralyzed, even speechless. There were 300 Ghanaian troops, 55 Austrian hospital specialists and a company of Pakistani transport men in Bakwanga the day Kalonji brought his victims to town for their public beating; apparently they stood by helplessly, did not even report the incident to Leopoldville headquarters of U.N. Congo Chief Rajeshwar Dayal until four days later. Eleven hundred U.N. Ethiopian soldiers were in the area when Gizenga executed his 15 enemies; either they knew nothing of the killings or did nothing to stop them...
...limber, goateed adventurer who in a few dizzy years had skyrocketed from postal clerk to world figure, Tshombe had only a terse epitaph: "The fuss over this evil man will soon die down. The people have no memories here. C'est fini...
...touched by the 40-minute eulogy-filled farewell of his colleagues, the retiring primate continued his uncommon burst of self-revelation: "I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: it is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters. That may surprise some of you, but it is precisely because I expect to find in them rows of evil that...