Word: wickeder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Q. You have said Saddam Hussein is a "wicked man." But won't a policy of simply standing aside from the conflict allow him to continue ruling?
In more than 600 pages the book digs up seemingly every tawdry anecdote, unflattering recollection or catty comment ever uttered about Nancy Reagan. The former First Lady was, in Kelley's account, a cold and uncaring parent, a manipulative social climber and an acquisitive arriviste -- who was nonetheless so cheap...
The gossip is certain to intensify next month, when Treetops (Bantam; $19.95), a book by Cheever's daughter Susan, arrives in bookstores. The volume is ostensibly a history of her mother's extraordinary family: one member was Alexander Graham Bell's assistant; another went to the Arctic with Admiral Robert...
Protestant and Jewish thinkers developed similar theories. To Martin Luther, the power of temporal rulers was to be "turned only against the wicked, to hold them in check and keep them at peace, and to protect and save the righteous." In practice, however, most clergy in wartime preached the righteousness...
"What is he going to do about the dropout problem in Cambridge?" he said. "That's the most wicked problem. These kids here need help."