Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself as a soldier in the holy war against Communism. Yet somewhere along the line, this man whose earnest, blue- eyed features were the stuff of Marine recruiting posters went off track. He came to see every bureaucratic squabble as a battle between good and evil, and his passionate intensity began to melt his judgment. He was a man whose zealotry served his country better in war than in peace. As in Greek tragedy, the same characteristics that catapulted North to great heights sent him plunging to earth...
...more than ever, Sullivan's original view that U.S. firms were justified in remaining requires his full commitment to break up the evil apartheid system. Indignation at apartheid is respected, justified and necessary, but putting a two-year time limit on courses of action was unrealistic. Please reverse your decision, Reverend Sullivan; we still need your support...
People are not becoming more evil but more perfect. The events and behavior you cite as evidence of questionable ethics simply reflect our increased awareness of evil through the technology of instant global communications. Any public lapse of morals is now known instantly and responded to with outrage and a demand for perfection. To me, this represents an improvement in our situation...
...willing to talk to anybody that Osborne and I never caught on. Being a man of the far 'burbs, I am mystified about the dark mutterings of Georgetown cocktail parties. But then Nixon and a lot of others often used Georgetown as a handle for the source of any evil that sprang...
...Club, rendezvous of White House correspondents for hilarity and bad food. After another of those miserable Ziegler briefings, the gang would trudge across Lafayette Square giving the anatomy of Andrew Jackson's rampant bronze horse an insult or two, then pull up in the club dining room and on evil days have a martini, maybe two. About then our natural leader, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, would shout, "Okay, boys, let's cut 'em up." There followed golden hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen, members of Congress and little old ladies...