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Word: evilness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where Baganda tribesmen still mourn the loss of their exiled Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14), Governor Sir Andrew Cohen took a plane for London to discuss "social and economic re forms" with British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. Said Cohen before takeoff: "There must be no color bar in Uganda; this evil thing will never be permitted in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bigger Share of the Blanket | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...better than most of their unimprisoned associate and who arrange fate according to an optimum standard of justice is amusing at least for a time. It provides the convicts with an opportunity to invent a variety of tricks, including mock trials and frivolous discussions of good and evil, in their efforts to save the Ducotels. Slezak, bouncing about the stage in a care-free, self-assured style, is the real mastermind of the group. A superb comedian, he makes gimmicks which might have grown stale seem fresh throughout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Three Angels | 2/17/1954 | See Source »

...assault was sustained the next day by White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams, who told the Republican National Committee: "The attempt by these political sadists . . . to talk this country into a depression [is a] perniciously evil device [for] attempting to destroy the confidence of the people in our Government . . . It should be recognized . . . [as] the 'fear deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Whipping the Doom Criers | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...school basketball game. From there he went on to Mt. Clemens, Mich., then to a jampacked, impassioned session with 1,000 of his fellow Wisconsinites in Madison's Eagles Hall. Sample McCarthy extravagance: "The Democratic label is now the property of men who have been unwilling to recognize evil or who bent to whispered pleas from the lips of traitors . . . men and women who wear the political label stitched with the idiocy of a Truman, rotted by the deceit of an Acheson, corrupted by the Red slime of a White." Joe worked hard to make his audiences (mostly middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Word for Joe | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...counsel of the ungodly . . ."). Vice President Nixon, a Quaker, read from the 15th chapter of John ("This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you . . ."). Hotelman Conrad Hilton, their host, a Roman Catholic, told them: "It took a war and the frightening evil of Communism to show the world that this whole business of prayer is not a sissy, a counterfeit thing . . . Rather it is a part of man's personality, without which he limps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Breakfast in Washington | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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