Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student dead. Nothing in Greensboro's past, however, came close to what happened last week: a Shootout between Ku Klux Klansmen and anti-Klan protesters in which four people were killed and nine were wounded. The city's mayor, Jim Melvin, called it "one of the most hideous acts in America...
...Daniel Berrigan, radical Jesuit: What the Pope has on his mind is what I have on my mind, the hideous nuclear arms race. He is not afraid to show his heart in the midst of a heartless world, a world of executioners, of mannequins and robots who coldly calculate the extinction of human beings. The great powers turn their backs. They say, "Aren't these fine sentiments?" But John Paul spoke to people, not to governments ... This is not to say that he sees the mote in his own eye. His views of women are old fashioned, and they...
Howard is clearly unhappy with that possibility. For the true villain of his book is a criminal-justice system that fails to protect society from its marauders. There is, however, another villain in Zebra - one that Howard somewhat slights. In concentrating on the crimes, hideous as they are, he does not really grapple with the social ecology that may drive ill-educated, rootless men to acts of such brutality. Still, Howard's pronouncement echoes like a scream on a dark street: "California [has] a bad habit of letting its convicted killers out to kill again...
...regulations, which the NCAA described as a "major departure" from previous proposals, have raised quite a fuss. Large universities--investing hideous amounts of money in football and basketball programs, they claimed, would die. Coaches of revenue-producing sports--read: football, basketball ad nauseum--were outraged. Meanwhile, women athletic directors and athletes were outraged that the college coaches and directors were outraged. While everybody argued, HEW declared a "comment period" of four months in which anybody with anything to say about the problem would speak his/her piece. And 750 groups did, some with letters as long as 40 pages...
Carlo disappeared into the back room for a moment, then returned with an ordinary shoebox. He opened the lid and removed a hideous pair of black and white pumps. But these were not an ordinary pair of black and white pumps; both were left feet, one had a right angle turn with separate compartments that pointed the toes in impossible directions. The other shoe was six inches long and was curved inward like a rocking chair with a vise and razor blades to hold the foot in place...