Word: ghoulish
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...Brothers fear that like some sort of ghoulish Star Trek villain MIT will snatch them from behind and suck all of the life juices from their bodies. If they don't stay armed, beer mug in one hand, Simmons woman in the other, and stick together, they might be picked off one by one, left to rot in nurd purgatory. So they help each other out, getting the pledges dates, reminding a careless eager beaver that he's spending too much time under the high-intensity bulb with his organic chem models, and generally by being unnaturally cheerful...
Javits denounced the ads as "ghoulish," but surveys showed that his age and illness did influence voters. Said Businessman Marshall Merritt as he left the polls in Manhattan: "Javits is too old and sick for the job. The Senate shouldn't be a club for superannuated public servants." In Washington, Javits vowed to take on D'Amato again in November, as the candidate of New York's small Liberal Party. Said Javits of the coming campaign: "I assure you that it will be vigorous...
Orbach was talking about the curtain. For anyone unfamiliar with theater idiom, however, other nightmarish alternatives presented themselves. The moment was that terrible, that ghoulish and-it must be said-that calculated. Merrick's decision to reveal the director's death as a grotesque curtain speech resulted in the kind of attention and publicity that a more private notice-say, after the final curtain to cast, crew and friends, or at the scheduled opening-night party-would never have attracted...
Reflecting the country's deep outrage at the display and desecration of the American dead, President Carter at a televised press conference assailed the Iranians' "ghoulish action," which he called "a horrible exhibition of inhumanity." He added: "This indicates quite clearly the kinds of people with whom we have been dealing. They did not bring shame and dishonor on those fallen Americans. They brought shame and dishonor on themselves...
...Television, when he began appearing as host of a series of funny-scary stories that he supervised (but rarely directed), allowed him to burnish his public persona to a high gloss: the solemn-faced fat man with a stately pace and a sepulchral voice improbably making outrageous puns and ghoulish observations about the tales he told...