Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policies are readily adjustable to meet the requirements of changing conditions-but there are occasions when not we, but others, should provide the change. Nothing could be more dangerous than for the U.S. to operate on the theory that if hostile and evil forces do not quickly and readily change, then it is we who must change to meet them...
...often happens when no real work remains to be done, RFC fell on evil ways after its reconversion tasks were completed. Private lenders complained bitterly to Congress that RFC was making many questionable business loans as political favors. Snake farms, luxury hotels and fancy gambling halls applied to-RFC for loans, and got them. In the latter days of the Truman Administration, congressional investigators unraveled before the nation's scandalized eyes a network of influence-peddling that led in and out of the White House offices, the RFC and the halls of Congress. Finally, in 1953, Congress ordered...
...offer legitimacy to as evil a regime as Red China would mean a new low in the moral degeneration of American principles. JOAN THOMPSON Washington...
...loss of confidence in the party . . . symptoms of distrust towards the command . . . lack of faith in socialism and in its superiority over the capitalist system. There is a tendency to condemn all the work done in the past twelve years; we are also inclined not to notice all the "evil and all that is inhuman in the capitalist structure, or the aggressiveness of the imperialist policy which heads for war. We notice doubts in the purposefulness of our alliance with the Soviet Union, in the importance of Soviet aid for our economy, and in the Soviet support of our national...
What is Othello about? Sexual jealousy, most people will say at once. True, but it is also a play about miscegenation, about reason and passion, about different personal approaches to good and evil, about inferiority and superiority complexes, about the interaction of two kinds of unusual egoist, and about many other things. There is a whole universe in this play...