Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood by him in a time of trouble. Alongside this human reaction we have the facts that she did not sing for the Germans or the quislings. Her guilt seems to have been that she lived comfortably while her compatriots did not. That, to our moral ideal, was a sin, but millions committed it during the war who will never be shamed...
...tale from Havana got what it deserved: decent burial on an inside page, below the fold. In the tabloids, and such dailies as are tabloids under the skin, the life, loves and death of one John Lester Mee got top billing as the season's spiciest mixture of sin, sex, masochism and mon-keyshine justice. It was the type of news the U.S. press tells only too well, and loves to tell...
...this combination of sin and misfortune, the lines paid dearly. In 1946, they lost some $13,000,000; they had made profits of over $16,000,000 the year before. In the first three months of this year they did no better...
Within this vale of toil and sin...
...Shared Sin. After eight months on Berhala the prisoners were moved to the main camp at Kuching. The women worked at forced field labor on a daily diet of one cup of rice gruel, five tablespoons of cooked rice, a few greens, tea, a little sugar. Soldier prisoners bargained with their guards for skinned cats and rats; "all of us were eating weeds and grass, and plenty of us would have liked to eat each other." For complaining of attempted rape, Mrs. Keith was beaten so badly that two ribs broke. Yet she was the favorite of Camp Commander Colonel...