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Word: eviler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan declared that the nuclear-arms freeze won in several states because foreign agents worked hard for it. Were 10.8 million out of 18 million Americans who voted on the issue fooled by this evil group, or is the President trying to discredit those who voted their conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 6, 1982 | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...fairy-tale characters which the unicorn meets show the same lack of inspiration. Schmedrick the nincompoop wizard, dressed like most eccentric magicians, rescues the unicorn from the evil magical captivity of Madame Fortuna, dressed like most short, ugly witchlike hags...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: An Inanimate Fantasy | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...mutters that the intruder could be the devil himself, for all we knew. This point us toward the film's deeper, religious level. Martin is indeed more than a Tartuffe who dispenses hypocritical banalities left and right. Underneath the treacly outside is a hard brimstone core, something profoundly evil When he is finally alone in the house with Patricia, he possesses her in a horribly cold-blooded manner, only to engage in a long heated prayer session with Mrs. Bates an hour later...

Author: By Jean CHRISTOPHE Castelli, | Title: British Punk | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

...must also be aware that not only is it wrong to attack civilian populations but it is also wrong to threaten to attack them as part of a strategy of deterrence." The bishops were applying the traditional teaching that it is as wrong to intend to commit an evil act as it is to commit it. In 1979, testifying on behalf of the hierarchy before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Cardinal Krol went further. He flatly ruled out use or "declared intent" to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances, presumably because masses of civilians would inevitably be involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bishops and the Bomb | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...story he had been covering since its inception, then hand the source over to a white reporter who would conduct an interview. Says the normally restrained Aubespin: "The assumption was made, purposely or not, that I was not able to ask the right questions. I got real evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Double Jeopardy in the Newsroom | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

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