Word: lustful
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...Although we have achieved freedom from our exterior enemies, the church will not ease up in this fight. We still have many enemies. The devil, the world and our own lust have assumed great power. . . . Liberation was accompanied by the burning and destruction of houses and homes, of everything the people needed to sustain life. In many places churches . . . have been destroyed. The free Norwegian soil has become the scorched earth. . . . Every head of a Christian family is a pastor in his own home. . . . The [ministry] must feel . . . that in every hut he has helpers...
...business has frequently brought this order only at the cost of the freedom of others. The reason lies in excesses of the very qualities most desirable in businessmen. Thus without regulation "initiative becomes arrogance; resourcefulness, cunning; efficiency, greed; tenacity, obstinacy; and willingness to take authority and responsibility, pride and lust for power...
...courts," continued, "this matter is based on reaction of the average man. We do make our decisions according to the reaction of literary critics. The important using is whether the lewd or questionable arts of the books we must pass judgement upon will have the effect of promoting lust...
...Most of the interest in the recently banned books," he commented, "has been stimulated because they are 'verboten,' not because of any lust which they might promote. So far as youth is concerned, the test is a simple one: there are certain types of literature which on their face are revealed as lewd and disgusting productions. About these there can be no question. But these types are rarely found in bookstores, their distribution being handled largely by underworld characters...
...competent teacher, and rammed the mysteries of algebra into his boys with great success.' He had 'the lust to teach-a passion apparently analogous to concupiscence or dipsomania, and, in the more extreme varieties of pedagogues, maybe quite as strong...