Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of fund for the American Dream. The essence of the dream is and always has been freedom." The Fund for the Republic, said American Legion National Commander J. Addington Wagner last week, "is giving comfort to the enemies of America . . . We are convinced that the fund is doing evil work." Neither Hutchins nor Wagner stands alone in his opinion; Hutchins has the cheers of many citizens who fear that the U.S. is seeking security at the cost of civil liberty; Wagner speaks for those who fear that security is being subverted by a version of liberty that amounts...
...fund's encouragement the postwar U.S. has resounded with debate on civil liberties. The need is not for more debate, but for debate of better quality, and, above all, for some answers to the very difficult questions raised by the presence of Communism and other forms of organized evil in a free society. The factual Yarmolinsky report, for example, made it clear how far the U.S. Government still is from working out standards and procedures that will at the same time protect itself from subversion and its employees from persecution...
...doctor finally arrived. Taken to a hospital, Mavis began to show signs of recovery. She had been the victim of "some form of hysteria," the doctor said. This explanation was repeated around the native location, but got nowhere among the crowds groaning and throwing bones to ward off the evil spirit...
...Verdict. The tribunal, six years after the first testimony was taken, accomplished what it had set out to do: it formally found that Joan of Arc had been wrongfully condemned. And the record noted with satisfaction the evil fate that had befallen three of the chief figures in her trial: Bishop Cauchon died suddenly while a barber was trimming his beard, Canon Jean d'Estivet, the "promoter," i.e., prosecutor, disappeared mysteriously and his body was discovered in a gutter, and their right-hand man, Nicolas Midy, was stricken with leprosy...
...choice before the voters of Cambridge is not a choice between good and evil, as the CRIMSON has implied.... Rather, the choice must be made among individuals, since the CCA has lost its reforming zeal by its association with Crane and DeGuglielmo. David M. Goldberg...