Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard series of lectures on labor strife and civil liberties, in company with veteran Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin. When Harry Truman seized the U.S. steel industry in 1952, Randall, although his company is only the eighth largest steel producer, was chosen as the industry's spokesman. "This evil deed," he said in a blistering radio-TV speech, "without precedent in American history, discharges a political debt to the C.I.O...
...trotter and pacer. In 24 seasons, he got 1,331 foals, bringing nearly $200,000 in stud fees to his owner, a onetime farm hand named William Rysdyk, who bought him for $125. Hambletonian (after whom the race is named) in turn was sired by Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months of his life roaming wild on a Brooklyn beach. Too weak to forage...
...Lilburn had no truck with the Evil...
...assistant commissioner of internal revenue, had been unable to get anything done at the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Through Markus and Solomon, Mayock met Lasdon and agreed to fix the matter for $65,000 cash. Why cash? Explained Mayock to the subcommittee: "I wanted to avoid the appearance of evil...
...cliches, such a qualification loses any real meaning or force. Virtually every attack on the merit system in history has been advanced under the cover of pious protestations. But when those attacks have succeeded -as they sometimes do when public vigilance falters-the real nature of the evil virus of spoils is fully revealed...