Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a kaleidoscopic series of case histories, a gallery of probationers, ranging from the wicked to the underprivileged and mentally defective, are pictured in predicaments ranging from comedy to tragedy. A few of the excessive characters: a young hoodlum (Harry Fowler) and a delinquent teen-ager (Joan Collins) who fall...
For years, Morse and his fellow liberals have been objecting to the filibuster as a wicked, minority-rule device. Now Morse was using typical filibuster tactics, not against any specific piece of legislation but simply to call attention to Wayne Morse.
Grandfather Andrew J. Clooney, onetime Democratic mayor of Maysville, set her to singing. One Maysville legend is that the Clooney Sisters, aged 6 and 3, made their debut from his electioneering platform, and wowed the voters with a performance of Home on the Range. In any case, the ham in...
Three-Year Dictatorship. For 20 minutes Naguib spoke, while overhead jets ripped across rooftops. Then at a signal the crowd rose and repeated after him Egypt's new creed, the Liberation Oath: "Almighty God, you love the strong and detest the meek. You spread your mercy over those who...
In the week before his inauguration, Dwight Eisenhower thought much about the passage in the Bible on which he wished to place his hand when taking the oath of high office. One morning at his Commodore Hotel headquarters, he remembered. He marked off II Chronicles, Chapter 7, starting with the...