Word: tempters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle feared that one side or the other of the divided world would try to utilize reborn Germany against the other. "[Germany] must be so placed that she may not become either tempter or tempted. If not, woe once more to the sons and daughters...
Since U.S. dairy cattle give down more than 100,000,000,000 pounds of milk a year, the U.S. has plenty of milk. But ice cream -childhood's caviar, poor man's pheasant, fat lady's tempter -has the demerit of needing sugar as well as milk. There was no sign last week, however, that ice-cream output would be seriously curtailed. It just won't be so fancy. Although some big, inventive ice-cream makers have been turning out a total of 28 flavors, ten seemed plenty...
Walter Huston plays the Devil with demoniacal glee. Disguised as Mr. Scratch, a quizzical Yankee trader with a duck hunter's cap, bristly sideburns and stubble beard, he is a puckish tempter. Whether he is getting Daniel plastered, playing the bass drum in the village band, or spryly nibbling a carrot, he seems to be hugely enjoying his part. He is the kind of Devil most people would like to know...
...Greek word agape: non-possessive rather than possessive love. This was and is, he believes, perhaps as actual a force as electricity. Fear is the root of all state-religions, it suffuses and gives shape to society, and is described by the prophets as Satan or the Tempter. Craving, a low state of creative energy, is the root of rebellion, and rebellion likewise is a state of sin or death. The technique by which the hostile power of the world is "bound" is broadly similar to Tolstoy's or Gandhi's nonresistance of evil...