Word: greed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact is, atomic bombs are dangerous only because some atomic men cannot be trusted. Our crisis today comes from man's greed and will to power, his refusal to submit to reason. As Christians, we must hope that in the Kremlin's dictatorial mind there can eventually be sown some small measure of skepticism as to the value of the barren earth which any atomic war would bring. We must pray for that, with our lips and with the example of holy lives...
...Dolly as a "scheming, conniving, lying girl," whose charges were a "favorite weapon of gold diggers." Ruled he: "I am not going to extract money from the defendant's pockets just because he is a wealthy man . . . To me, [Dolly] and her father are despicable people . . . motivated ... by greed for money." Astor's lawyer, W. F. Parker, had more than agreed during the hearing, crying: "Your Honor, the truth ain't in [Dolly]. Astor denies her charges. And I don't think Astor is capable of telling an intelligent lie!" In the apparent belief that Dolly...
...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...
...wife he hates-the wife who intimated there was something unnatural between him and his now-dead closest friend. In an atmosphere of conjugal and family pretenses, accusations and resentments. Brick and his father, during a lacerating scene, blurt out some ugly truths. Thereafter other revelations-about sex, illness, greed, dislike-spill forth during tense family scenes...
...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...