Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ancient ark, which, when tinkered with, empties out a cloud-burst of evil spirits with the power to incinerate anyone in their path...
...especially troubling at a time when real-life intellectuals are suddenly finding themselves threatened by rigid fundamentalists. Proponents of the bankrupt theory of creationism have launched a surprisingly successful crusade against teachers of evolution. Stern schoolboards have revived the archaic practice of book-banning; their hysterical search for evil influence in the most innocent quarters calls to mind nothing so much as a swinging single's fear of herpes...
...years, as he would have been had he received a life sentence for murder, Watts agreed to help clear up a string of unsolved weekend murders of women in Texas. By the end of last week, Watts had admitted to strangling or stabbing eleven women (his motive: women are "evil") and had taken authorities to the grave sites of three victims. Police believe he may have killed as many as 40 women over an eight-year period in Texas, Michigan and Canada...
...hole heart the intersection of Argentina and Guatemala streets, they discovered an oval stone eleven feet in diameter, covered with carvings. Archaeologists quickly identified the relief as a representation of an important Aztec myth. The central image on the stone was the dismembered torso of Huitzilopochtli's evil sister, Coyolxauhqui. According to legend, she had plotted with her many brothers to kill their mother just as she was about to give birth to Huitzilopochtli. Instead, Huitzilopochtli sprang from the womb fully grown and armed, decapitated his matricidal sister and chased off his brothers. Some anthropologists read the myth...
...bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. It was the most stunning incident of terrorism since the assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, when I.R.A. terrorists blew up his fishing boat in August 1979. Said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "These callous and cowardly crimes have been committed by evil, brutal men who know nothing of democracy. We shall not rest until they are brought to justice...