Word: malignity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOMEHOW, though, Kosinski's early novels achieved a startling intensity of expression. The horrors witnessed by a child refugee in the villages of a malign, warravaged Eastern Europe in The Painted Bird take on an added dimension in its clinical, matter-of-fact narratives...
...legislatures, influenced by the new vogue of free competition, passed laws permitting any investors who met minimum qualifications to set up a corporation; previously, each corporation had to be chartered separately, and the charters amounted to grants of monopoly power. Almost on cue, some wonders followed?both beneficent and malign...
...away from James B. ("Slick") Davis, a fellow inmate. Davis, who was allowed to work in the prison slaughterhouse even though he had been diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic, jammed a butcher knife into Bogard's spinal cord. The incident was Bogard's second bloody encounter with the malign brutality that has established Parchman as one of the most dangerous prisons in the U.S. Less than a year before, he was shot in the foot by another inmate, who had been armed to supervise cons working on the prison's 22,000-acre farm. For Bogard...
Carbon monoxide (CO) produces its poisonous effect by crowding out oxygen molecules that normally attach themselves, in the lungs, to the hemoglobin molecules in red blood cells. By a malign quirk of nature, CO has an affinity for hemoglobin more than 200 times as great as that of oxygen. Thus too much carbon monoxide starves the body of oxygen, causing illness and sometimes death-as in the case of the suicide who runs a hose from the engine exhaust to the inside of his car. But how many Americans are inhaling an excessive amount...
...issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." Moynihan was saying not only that the issue had been "too much talked about" but also that other minorities (Indians, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans) were not getting enough attention. In any neglect" case, to seemed many distinctly blacks, malign. "benign...