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Word: lusting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discover that it is about the same hair-raising war-between-the-sexes that chilled U.S. marrows in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce. A well-told tale whose deadpan savagery suggests that it was written with the tip of an icicle, it features enough lust and mayhem per page to shame a pulp novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love's Lovely Confederates | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...slick grey hair and graceful, precise gestures, he might be a European diplomat of the old school. How such a man at a fateful moment in history came to be the spokesman for millions of Moslem peasants, small shopkeepers and soldiers, is a story of love of country and lust for power, a story that twists and turns like a bullock track in the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...hold, for within that magnificent body lurked a spirit easily stirred, which sometimes repelled one." Together with her handsome scriptwriter, Marcus Macer, she was sent by the Emperor Trajan to Antioch to satirize the growing sect of Christians out of existence. After 263 pages of intrigue, violence and lust, the story erupts in a holocaust of earthquake and conversion. The earth literally swallows up Marcus, while Cynthia does a quick change from a lubricous actress to a contrite Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Best-Selling Preacher | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...editor of his obscenely anti-Semitic Stürmer, he had flooded Germany with pseudoscientific, racist hogwash. Said the British prosecutor: "He leaves behind him as a legacy for Europe and the civilized world, millions of young warped and distorted minds ... a whole people poisoned with the lust of hatred, cruelty and murder." (The other defendants pointedly turned their backs on Streicher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Under the Hammer | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...bloodthirstier her language became: "Yes, they're nutty all right, these 'liberals'-for they can't see further ahead than the first frenzied days of plunder, murder, fire, rape and prancing about with pale, fresh-cut human heads on bloody pikes . . . besotted in their lust for blood and carnage and dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Loony? | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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