Word: malignance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is not an invitation to moral softheadedness, a coddling of the malign. Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke for all time when he said, "Anarchy is anarchy, and it makes no difference who practices it. It is bad, it is punishable, and it should be punished." Yet that punishment must rise from rational response to irrational acts. Unfortunately, perhaps tragically, if it is to remain open, human society must assume certain risks. They need not include insanity, terrorism, murder. But they had better include the liberty of action. Total-in other words, totalitarian-security means, ultimately, the Astrodome made global...
Today I was appalled to notice the depths to which those who would malign Blacks will stoop. I refer to the forged anti-racism letters which as Tim Bilodeau, a defensive back on the football team, said. "I think it was just someone who wants to make trouble." We have been confronted with similar situations, and it was ill-conceived for the Review Committee to solicit anonymous comments about our department...
...similar positions on the war because each had voted for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964. But what Muskie tactfully ignored is the fact that the other two Senators, particularly McGovern, have ardently opposed the war since its inception, while he curiously did not have the foresight to malign America's involvement until it had become a Republican...
...major cause of lung cancer and, in combination with heavy drinking, cancer of the esophagus, smoking is now damned as a cause of bladder cancer and is strongly suspected of causing cancer in the pancreas. Steinfeld also said that there is stronger evidence than ever of the malign effects of smoking on a variety of heart, artery and lung conditions...
These critics go about their task in a way hauntingly familiar to an older generation. Their aim is to build a following for themselves. They would do this by sowing doubtsand suspicions. They hope then to attract sufficient support to be able to enforce demands on those whom they malign and designate as the enemy, using the old means of distortion, accusation, guilt imputed by association, and so on. And they thrive as people lend them credence...