Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholic theologians nowadays unanimously admit the lawfulness of a defensive strike. ... A strike directed to obtaining better conditions, even though those actually existing are not unjust . . . is not permissible, if it involves the violation of a just contract. But even when there is no injustice . . . there may be a violation of charity toward the employer and the general public...
...took down a French medical book from a row in his small private office, opened it to a chapter on hangings. Then he took a piece of thin copper wire, twisted it into a neat noose. Next morning, Buddhist Thinh, in whose religion suicide is the supreme reproach against unjust criticism, was found dead...
...crippling of those who most need to work is hardly consistent with the generous scholarship policy of the University, and certainly unnecessary if the same work merits the same pay. The present practice makes lower wages the penalty of having to work to stay in college. This is singularly unjust treatment of a group of students most of whom have demonstrated by their willingness to earn their way a real desire to attend Harvard...
...Vlll follows history fairly faithfully only to leave drama at a distance. Though Henry is the cause of all the action, he never seems the center of the play; and its interest wobbles between the just deserts visited on that "proud, bad man," the ambitious Cardinal Wolsey, and the unjust deserts visited on that proud, good woman whom Henry cast aside for Anne Boleyn-Katherine of Aragon...
Citing the cession of unjust rights to Italy in South Tryol, which were based on the World War I mistake of Wilson, and the abortion of Italy's just claims in Trieste, Salvemini said that the results of the conference were the product of the more prevalent type of power politics, foolish power politics...