Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over by the Foundation for Economic Education, a nonprofit organization, which has turned it into a monthly. The magazine also had a new editor: Frank Chodorov, 67, director from 1936 to 1941 of the Henry George School of Social Science and author of The Income Tax: Root of All Evil...
...ended abruptly at the new concrete face of Falcon Dam, 75 miles below Laredo. This week, as the river sank to only 9 ft. at Laredo, flood waters lapped up behind Falcon Dam and assured farmers downstream of irrigation in the searing months ahead. Hurricane Alice, for all her evil, had at last blown some good...
...make gold. How did this man, "who in normal times would have been put into a nursing home," become the "foremost man after Hitler in the German Reich?" For one thing, says Hoettl, Hitler was "an indifferent judge of men." For another, Himmler was propped up by an evil genius behind the scenes, his henchman Reinhard Heydrich, "the Hangman...
Polemic & Chuckle. Author Guareschi regards Communism as a formidable evil, but at the grass-roots level he treats it as more of a joke-tricky, unpredictable, often violent and sometimes hurtful, but essentially a joke perpetrated by clumsy bunglers who do not know that the laugh is on them. This may be both oversimplification and underestimation, but in Guareschi's hands the theory bears up entertainingly well. Communists hate to be spoofed. Guareschi, in his halfway perch between angry polemic and soft chuckle, makes fun of them. Peppone, for example, advises Comrade Lungo not to be alarmed because...
...secret session. But on his way to the Capitol, Russell had driven past a slave auction, and he was so upset that he refused point-blank to sit with "a Congress of Slave States." One day beside the Mississippi River, an "an-thropoproprietor" insisted upon conducting him around an evil-smelling set of slave pens, beneath their canopy of flies...