Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...traveler, its latent wealth unsuspected. Texans say that if it lay in Europe it would be called the Desolate Plains, or something equally melodramatic, and travelers would shun it, just as the pleasant fir woods of Germany are known as the Black Forest, the abode of witches and evil spirits. But, being in Texas, it is irrigated, scraped over, dug into with an energetic, hopeful, optimistic curiosity. As a result the land produces oil, grapefruit, spinach, oranges, carrots, cantaloupes, tomatoes, turkeys, cattle, and is proudly called by the natives the garden spot of the universe...
...TIME does not designate the Man of the Year to do him honor. It designates him for accomplishments-whether for good or evil-that make outstanding differences in the world in which mankind lives...
...without destroying the unity of each. Even more noxious is the overlapping of lectures within one and the same course, which is quite current in 41, and not unknown in 45 and 61. Closer collaboration between the different lecturers in each course would readily cure the evil...
With splendid irony the Japanese military authorities posted a sign on the barrier blocking off the "badlands" of Western Shanghai: "People with evil intentions against the Japanese Army . . . are strictly forbidden to pass through here." Specifically forbidden was the man with the best possible reason for passing: Major S. R. Hunt, liaison officer between the British Consulate and the Japanese Army...
...birth pangs of Arizona are merely background for the scufflings of these representatives of good & evil as they wind their way through Indian fights, cattle rustling, military occupation by both Confederate and Union troops. Like any horse opera, big or small, the picture provides more gunplay than the Aberdeen, Md. Proving Ground...