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Word: wickedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under China's new conquerors, calm, lanky Dr. Wallace, a 42-year-old native of Knoxville, Tenn., continued his work in Wuchow despite the hindrance of the Chinese Communists. His popularity with the Chinese of the Wuchow area was his undoing; Communist propaganda about the wicked Americans could not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modern Martyr | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

"Principles of individual liberty are good, but they are intended for the well-being of society-not to destroy it ... Let's not allow good principles to be exploited by wicked people ... If I dig a well, it's to get water to drink, not to fall into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Young Gentlemen | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Readers of Barnhart's dictionary will not get a definition of the adjective evil that begins: "Injurious, mischievous." He speaks right up: "Bad; wrong; sinful; wicked." As for agate, he suppresses "a variegated chalcedony" and makes it "a variety of quartz . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Easy Does It | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber. A thoroughly satisfying fairy tale in which the prince and the princess outmaneuver the wicked Duke to an accompaniment of gleeps, glups, guggles and, possibly, inner meanings (TIME, Dec. 25).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber. A thoroughly satisfying fairy tale in which the prince and the princess out-maneuver the wicked Duke to an accompaniment of gleeps, glups, guggles and, possibly, inner meanings (TIME, Dec. 25).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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