Word: hideous
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...Machiavellian method of dictatorship to a historical study. Reasons of State concentrates instead on portraying the myriad cultural changes in Europe and America that resulted from the First World War. The upheaval of the Jazz Age is transmitted to Latin America, where because of an economic boom, they build hideous skyscrapers, dance to "Yes, We Have No Bananas...
...Nixon administration. After President Johnson authorized a needed revision of the crime code in the 1960's, Attorney, Generals John P. Mitchell and Richard G. Kleindienst '41 re-wrote the bill, inserting repressive clauses. In the words of former Senator Sam J. Ervin, they produced a 735-page "hideous proposal" that would create a police state in America...
Depending on the eye of the beholder, one showed what could be a large body with a long neck, the other what might, with the help of an active imagination, be a hideous, horned head...
...chest in the shark's horrific gullet, the victim screams bright gouts of blood as the great beast drags him down to a hideous quietus...
Girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence--nothingness--the predicament of man, forced to live in a barren, godless eternity, like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void--with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation--forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos...