Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here is a devil who in the mere spasms of his pride and lust for domination can condemn two or three millions-perhaps it may be many more-of human beings to speedy and violent death. . . . Ah, but this time it was not so easy. . . . For the first time Nazi blood has flowed in fearful flood. Perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two millions of Nazi cannon fodder have bit the dust on the endless plains of Russia...
...nine scholars is Yale's Walton H. Hamilton, Southmayd professor of law. Excerpts: "In an opinion of some 5,000 words . . . the judge rises to every error which opportunity presents. ... At City College there must be nothing said or read about Biblical men who looked with lust upon female flesh. . . . The student body at City College consists of males, chaste or unchaste, some of them over 18, with morals poised so delicately that, if Bertrand Russell expounds mathematics or philosophy, they are impelled to abduct and rape, while if he does not appear in their midst, woman...
...ultimately requiring the union of the arts in a popular synthesis of sociological import. The Ring [of the Nibelungs] accordingly celebrates in turn the superman-to-be, the fall of the old gods through the curse of gold, and the triumph of Germanism, in one long tale of blood, lust and deceit. . . . History is a sieve that works, and the residue is the artwork of the future...
Occasion of the drive is the first authorized Catholic English-language revision of Holy Writ since 1749, a simplified text which omits inverted phrases and archaic word forms, changes "tidings" to "news," "concupiscence" to "lust," "wilderness" to "desert," "bier" to "stretcher." Even the words of the sign of the cross, with which every Roman Catholic begins and ends his prayers, have been changed-the Holy Ghost is now called the Holy Spirit. Typical modernization: Matthew XIll's reference to Christ's miracle-working powers from "Whence therefore hath he all these things," to "Then where...
...Kilmer, the marriage service and Shakespeare, Burglar Powys invariably knocks over the china closet or steps on the cat. The following not untypical sentence should be engraved on the tomb of Krafft-Ebing: "He was witnessing . . . what few men have been privileged to contemplate: namely, the writhings of a lust-demented lady on the breast of a man whose arms were tied behind his back...