Word: unjustness
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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...
...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...