Word: unjustness
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...with a churchmouse of a brother and an old housekeeper in the family's Manhattan brownstone on East 57th Street. The last 20 years of his life were devoted almost exclusively to barren eccentricities designed to promote himself. In endless letters to the newspapers he ranted of his unjust fate. The letters were signed "Flashful Inventor," "Supreme Spirit of the Spheres," or simply "Transcendent Eagle...
...Than an unjust and wicked king...
...addition to its chemistry, the McCarran-Walter Act contains some unpleasant little ideological twists, which, like most "security" measures, put the burden of proof on the "suspected subversive." Liberals have long attacked these clauses as violations of civil liberties and freedom of belief, but the most glaringly unjust and illogical provision of the Act is its core, the national origins quota system...
...field. The other ABA recommendations--to give the Secretary of State broad power to withhold passports from "alleged subversives," to strengthen the already too stringent Smith Act, to extend the already too wide security program, to tighten immigration laws requiring the deportation of Communists (probably unconstitutional, and at least unjust, as they stand)--similarly represent dangerous incursions upon individual political liberty...
...would be unjust to leave Milton without speaking of his greatest work--and of a marvelous capsule analysis of the motivations of one of its characters. "Satan in Paradise Lost," one exam perceived, "is what Milton would have liked to have been if he hadn't gone blind." But then, this bit of biographical lore doesn't seem so bad when compared with the identification of Hogarth as Beowulf's grandfather...