greed
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Most of The Reconstruction of Europe describes how Talleyrand asserted his principles at Vienna, overcoming the intrigues, rivalries, greeds, hates and incurable frivolity of the rescued old regime.
From Time Magazine Archive
O'Neill's mid-19th-century chronicle of the greeds, lusts, hates and frustrations of a New England farming family centers in a fierce struggle for possession of the farm.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sources of Eva's greeds, hates and demagogic passions are too real to dismiss.
From Time Magazine Archive
He then shows how Old World hatreds and greeds, together with home-grown suspicions, turned Wilson's dream into a patchwork of drab compromise.
From Time Magazine Archive
I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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