Word: aforethought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international gangsterism. Do any of our business, industrial or political leaders think of the aggression against small states, mass murders, purges, brutal suppression of dissident minorities, repeated doublecrosses-to say nothing of the long and ever-growing list of agreements and treaties broken, deliberately and with considerable malice aforethought, by Communists...
...customary, both sides denied malice aforethought. But putting Duren on the shelf would obviously be a major advantage to any rival team. Reliefer Duren has won 5, lost 3, saved 16 Yankee victories, boasts the majors' lowest earned-run average (1.50), has fanned 63 in 54 innings with his blazing speed...
Rock 'n' roll is based on Negro blues, but in a self-conscious style which underlines the primitive qualities of the blues with malice, aforethought. Characteristics: an unrelenting, socking syncopation that sounds like a bull whip; a choleric saxophone honking mating-call sounds; an electric guitar turned up so loud that its sound shatters and splits; a vocal group that shudders and exercises violently to the beat while roughly chanting either a near-nonsense phrase or a moronic lyric in hillbilly idiom...
With mischief aforethought, Colorado Springs's Free Press sent sketches of the projected Air Force Academy (TIME, May 23) to cantankerous old (85) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, asked him for his comments. Replied Wright: "[It looks to me] as if another factory had moved in where it should not be. [It] will probably be known as Talbott's Aviary, or, more realistically, a factory for birdmen." Then Wright, suggesting that sketches of the Academy's controversial, spare-ribbed chapel be studied for ten years and then thrown away, lowered a cantilevered boom on his Chicago competition: "When...
...Malice Aforethought. In Tulsa, after burglars cracked his safe, took $600 and left their tools at the scene of the crime, Bowling Alley Owner Ted Sieler got a $16 due bill for the hardware, which the crooks had charged in his name at Sears, Roebuck...