Word: greeding
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...Furies (Paramount) is a pretentious exercise in Freudian dramatics, set in the New Mexico cow country of 1870. Its main characters, driven by vengeance and greed, wear their passions as openly as their six-shooters. And they switch from hate to love, and from love to hate, as readily as they shift from a canter to a trot...
Then he overreaches himself, gets involved in double-crossing and murder, makes an enemy of the national gambling syndicate's gracious, cultured boss (Otto Kruger). The moral: crime pays handsomely, but greed does...
...Truman, on tour, radiated confidence and wellbeing. In no position to berate a Congress controlled by his own party, he lumped all opponents of his policy with all the opponents of 17 years of Democratic rule and happily thumped away at them as "reactionaries," "timid men," "calamity howlers" and "greed boys." He wanted, he made it clear, what "the common man" wanted. If he didn't get it, that was not Harry Truman's fault-he was always trying. He was the buoyant salesman of good intentions...
...Empire Youth Sunday (May 21), the Church of England Youth Council prepared a prayer asking God's forgiveness for "the shortcomings of our imperial history, the greed and failure to consider the interests of the weak." Last week Anglican lay leaders objected to the prayer's use. Their reason: it would make propaganda for the Russians...
Horace used dropsy (most commonly, a swelling of the feet and ankles) as a figure of speech for greed. But modern medical science has found truth as well as poetry in his lines. The cause of the malady, doctors now believe, is not water, but sodium, which prompts the body to hoard water in abnormal amounts - usually as the result of a heart or kidney ailment...