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Word: eviler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once in city hall, Byrne quickly changed her campaign views. The machine politicians she had once denounced as "the evil cabal" soon became her allies and confidants. Byrne embraced their support, and went on to consolidate her power in the Cook Country Democratic Committee. June Byrne had not killed the machine, she merely added a new chapter to its history...

Author: By Bonnic Salomon, | Title: New Name, Old Game | 3/1/1983 | See Source »

...modern man-who "did not notice...that it was absolutely necessary that the soul be cut away"-ring truer than any of L 'Engle's accounts of death, shame and estrangement. The sections shows that the author's strength is still her ability to make questions of good and evil seem human and dramatic: the unnecessary clutter of A Severed Wasp suggests that she has mistaken her topic, but not her theme...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Cluttered Truths | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...author of some 20 additional adult and children's books, she still gets about 60 letters a week from appreciative readers and readers of the same story, which follows 12-years-old Meg and her brother on a quest through time space and mathematics to save their father from evil forces. In this early 1960s, L 'Engle says, the letters were almost all from children. But since then the balances has gradually shifted, and more than half her readers are past adolescence...

Author: By A A S, | Title: Post-Newton | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...quaint notion that government is both evil and unnecessary has had its principled advocates for centuries. But a modern-day group championing that impractical idea saw its claims to respectability vanish one day last week in an eruption of automatic rifle fire just before sunset on a normally quiet North Dakota prairie. In less than a minute, Kenneth Muir, 53, chief U.S. marshal in the state, and Deputy Marshal Robert Cheshire Jr., 32, had been killed. Deputy Marshal James Hopson, 59, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. So, too, was Yorivon Kahl, 23, son of Gordon Kahl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dakota Dragnet | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...know anything about this--exactly when this law will go into effect. There is some possibility. I think, that universities will continue to be exempted for a period of time--I'm sort of assuming that that may happen. If that happens, it only postpones the evil day. But I think we then have to address the issue very, very carefully. Now, I can't speculate about what will happen, but what is clear is that we will have some kind of staged review process at long intervals. I think than that will be a very difficult and very painful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mandating Retirement | 2/19/1983 | See Source »

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