Word: aforethought
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...Super-Americans, by John Bainbridge. Reporter Bainbridge traveled to Texas and with malice aforethought reported exactly what he found there. The result is high social satire, and a welcome capital gain for the reader...
...Lake George happened, in varying degrees of violence, in dozens of cities, towns and resort centers across the U.S. last week. At Ocean City, Md., police used K-9 dogs to break up a mob of 2,000 beer-swilling students. Many had come to town with mischief aforethought: their cars bore signs that read, "Fill Your Flask and Come to the Second Annual Ocean City Riot." At Wildwood, N.J., where merrymaking teen-agers did $1,500 worth of damage to one hotel, police arrested 160 over the weekend, imposed $6,000 worth of fines for disorderly conduct. At Clermont...
...that Gulliver's Travels, his epic of disgust for men and all their works, survives as a charmingly fantastic just-out-of-the-nursery tale that has delighted generations of the little Yahoos he detested. Satirist Swift would, however, hardly be amused by this film, which with commerce aforethought, scissors his plot and ruthlessly modernizes his ironic allegory of Lilliput and Brobdingnag into a monster movie freckled with psychiatric footnotes. But the dean is dead, and the little Yahoos will love...
...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...