Word: heathenish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Japs were masters of Angaur, in the Palau Islands, they tied noncooperative natives to trees and bashed in their heads with coconut-palm logs. This put a quietus on native dancing, which the Japanese considered a heathenish practice...
...force his 'New Order' on Central Europe today, on the whole of Europe tomorrow, and on the whole world the day after tomorrow. Its establishment is to be achieved by the whole might of Germany's military power, which is impelled by the force of a heathenish religion of blood, despotism and war. . . . We Christians cannot say 'No' nor 'Yes and No' to this war; we can only say 'Yes.' . . . We must not evade our responsibility for seeing that this war is waged, and waged ardently...
What brought these Senatorial headhunters together under the missionary banner of Mr. Hatch was a simple, heathenish fact: they were all interested in breaking up dangerously strong machines in their home States. Against him were arrayed veterans who have spent years of careful effort in building and oiling State machines...