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Word: eviler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flesh, the parting of bones. The camera is distressingly far away from the scene, forcing one to see it at an all-too-clear viewpoint, forcing one to see it all with horrifying objectivity. When the axe first sinks into the matron's shoulder, it suddenly comes together, the evil of the situation...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Gradual Terror | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

...responsible for Reagan's winning. Carter is losing votes because of Carter, because of his performance, because so many people are just turned off by his utter ineptitude. It isn't really that they are all for Reagan, either. But at least Reagan is the unknown evil; Carter is the known evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Finally Caught by Catch-22 | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...into deficit by at least $40 billion. Republicans obviously would not help them out of their dilemma. Scoffed Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee: "There's going to be a $60 billion deficit-the $60 billion surprise, I call it. The majority party wants to postpone the evil day. They don't want to belly up to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Congress Mostly Passes | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...motorbikes, thousands of small armed militia groups "headed toward the front. Civilians organized convoys of food, clothing, medicine and fuel. As each newly formed battalion set off, townspeople showered it with flowers and made it pass under a copy of the Holy Koran -a Persian tradition aimed at exorcising evil. With stoic fatalism the young bride of a soldier who had just left for the fighting remarked: "Life is a borrowing from God. It must be returned to him when he so wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: The Blitz Bogs Down | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...north wall features an evil dwarf sporting brown breeches, riding boots, a whip, and a sinister moustache. On the east wall, a blond, well-built Nordic armed with a flamethrower leads to group of giants wearing helmets similar to those of the modern German army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Museum Displays Controversial Mural | 10/9/1980 | See Source »

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