Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peculiar Jab. Her personality is a mixture of puritanism and passion: the two qualities are powerful partners. Though she sometimes swears like a trooper, she does not like to hear others swear. She sips at a drink occasionally to be sociable, but she is eloquent on the evils of hard...
Summed up Steinbeck: "If you . . . meant to suggest that American soldiers are wicked, degenerate or brutish, you, Ezio Taddei, are a liar."
Window's Way, by James Ramsey Ullman, preaches humanity. The hero, Dr. Windom, is a dedicated medical missionary in a remote corner of Southeast Asia. Inevitably, he gets caught up in a struggle between the wicked reactionary government and the ruthless Communist guerrillas. Windom's problem is what...
There is Churchill, "the naughtiest little boy in the whole world," whose instructors could only keep him quiet by racing him around full tilt all through recesses. There is Churchill, the young subaltern in India, flashing a wicked polo style "like a man thrashing at a cobra with a riding...
The first five minutes gave an indication of the Exonians' strength as they rocked the Yardlings with three quick goals, adding two more before the end of the period. At 3:58 of the second quarter the Crimson scored its sole tally when Pete Palches carried the ball over the...