Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the partition recommended by the General Assembly does violence to the rights of small nations and the self-determination of peoples as proclaimed in the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter. They believe it is far more dangerous for the United Nations to attempt to enforce an unjust solution than to look for another which could be just and workable...
...Heartily Detest. . . ." From the Russian pacifist Count Leo Tolstoy and the American hermit-naturalist Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi learned the doctrines of nonviolence and deliberate, organized disobedience to unjust power. He said it was better to be poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...
...what Norma Wulff had to say. She was garrulous and disjointed in her speech, but she made her points by the force of her enthusiasm and an irresistible supply of facts. Gradually accepting her as someone they could trust, teachers brought her stories of corruption, of campaign shakedowns, of unjust dismissals, and of board members who kept their relatives on the city payroll. The year she became president of the school board, Clevelanders went the whole way with her, voting the labor bloc out of office...
Before they could intervene he slid down a projecting pillar to the ground, but seemed to be unjust...
...pair of skis in addition to 40 lbs. of free baggage allowed each passenger, contained in Paragraph (f) (5) (a) of Rule 16 appearing on fourth revised Page 18 of Redfern's Local and Joint Passenger Rules Tariff No. PR-2, CAB No. 12, may be unjust or unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or unduly prejudicial, and whether and to what extent the board shall take further action with respect thereto...