Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where middle-aged mothers and grandmothers moon like adolescents over a toothy piano player; in a land where sex has become so naughty-fied that its outflow has been redirected to the channel of physical violence; where nice girls are taught early that it is legal to tease but evil to please . . . it might be more discreet to observe a mum respect for the pragmatic, clearheaded and honest Swedes. It might also be revealing to compare their and our records in the above-mentioned areas of crime. For when you come right down to it, we've made...
...great political danger of the present time, Kirk said in opening the debate, is the growth of totalitarian societies. He attacked the liberal drift toward "repressive collectivism" and the "evil benefits of the welfare state" on the grounds that, although immediately beneficial, they tended to change society for the worse in the long...
...many children born out of wedlock are legitimized by subsequent marriage. Quoting a Roman Catholic priest on Sweden would be a good deal like quoting a Communist on American democracy ! . . . The most shocking aspect of your attack is the slandering of Elise Ottesen-Jensen. She has fought the abortion evil for decades, one of her weapons being the maintenance of a home for unmarried mothers . . I have lived in many countries and, for my money, the Swedes have as high a standard of ethics as any people I know...
...battle's second day the Binh Xuyen fell back across the Chinese Arroyo, an evil-smelling canal on the southern edge of Saigon, blowing the bridges. The Nationalists regrouped, and in the evening they crossed the canal on both of the Binh Xuyen flanks, clobbering them, driving the terrorists clean out of town. The Nationalists destroyed the headquarters of the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien, the place where he kept his pet crocodiles. Only three Binh Xuyen posts remained; they were inside the cordoned-off French quarter. "Your courage has written a glorious page," Diem proclaimed...
...preferences in Holy Writ must be the verses that can be perversely warped out of their real meaning to make nice booby traps. Here is a beauty: "For you always have the poor with you." That has been continuously twisted by knaves to induce the belief that the evil of poverty is set in the world as permanently as gravitation. Another honey, lifted out of its context and distorted, is, "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword." And the devil whispers behind the leaves of the Book, "There is your blessing on war." Another good...