Word: miscreant
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...some miscreant in light blue took aim at the football and punched it loose from Grana's grasp. It bounded free in the end zone and another child of darkness scooped it up. Only Columbia's recklessness and center Brad Stephens' alertness saved Harvard from total humiliation in the last minute of play...
Enter the villain (Keenan Wynn), a mustached miscreant named Alonzo Hawk who proposes a dastardly scheme to get rich quick: buy stock in glass companies, and then-heh-heh-heh-break every window in the world! But the professor proudly refuses, and jumps in his flivver. He doesn't want to miss The Big Game-and neither will any moviegoer who needs a good, old-fashioned locomotive laugh. It's a flubbergasser...
Brian Moore, the talented Irish-Canadian author of The Feast of Lupercal and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, is the latest novelist to turn savagely on his own kind. Moore's miscreant hero is Brendan Tierney, a young Belfast short-storyist who has emigrated to New York and lost his faith, acquiring in its place a magazine job, some fake Danish furniture and an authentic American wife. Brendan's problem is that he is almost 30, the age at which a promising writer either writes something or becomes merely a pawned talent...
...advent of April 15 each year is hailed, as sure as death, by newspaper accounts of heavy punishment being visited upon miscreant taxpayers. The timing is no accident: the Internal Revenue Service likes to give the impression at filing time that, like the Mounties, it always gets its man. Last week, as some 62.9 million Americans went through their annual throes, they could reflect on the well-publicized tax indictment of J. Truman Bidwell, chairman of the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange...
...Must. In the 19th century, the exploitation of rubber in the interior introduced another wave of slaughter. To punish one miscreant slave, one plantation owner forced him to watch while plantation hands took turns raping the Indian's wife, then had the man emasculated. After a visit to Brazil in 1900, Lord Bryce, famed British Ambassador to the U.S., wrote: "The methods employed in the collection of rubber surpass in horror anything hitherto reported to the civilized world during the last century. Flogging, torturing, burning and starving to death have been constantly and ruthlessly employed." Along with the white...