Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fisher said, "had I felt guilty of any one charge levelled against me," he could not have kept up his sequence of wearying refutations. "I am convinced," he added, "that only a person who is certain of the justness of his position can stand up under 34 days of unjust and insincere attack. I have attempted to look upon this situation with a feeling of sympathy toward those men on the Council who hold their positions more important than integrity...
...Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican...
...three of his earlier novels, Cozzens presented the hodgepodge of the medical profession (The Last Adam), the ministry (Men and Brethren), the law (The Just and the Unjust). In Guard of Honor he not only shows again his fine descriptive talents but boldly tangles with two of the toughest subjects of the day-the nature of war, and racial intolerance. Guard of Honor is a big, fat book-much bigger than Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal or Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement-bigger, and far better...
Thus it comes about that had the Sox snatched the pennant untimely from Cleveland's grasp, Billy Southworth and his tight-lipped little band of disciples would have taken a week of the most concerted and unjust verbal battering in the history of baseball. His magnificent achievement in bringing a second-division club home first, with room to spare, would have gone by unnoticed amid futile and prejudicial controversy...
Your fairly accurate account of Mrs. Riddle and Avon Old Farms [TIME, March 22] repeats a myth, unjust to the memory of a headmaster of the school who suffered for ten years under her devastating domination, and ended broken in health and mind. His name was not selected from the telephone directory; he was suggested for the position by the dean of a theological seminary in New York...