Word: vendettas
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...Clemente, reveling in the privacy that those retreats provide him. He treats Congress as an entity to be ignored or an obstacle to be surmounted, often to the distress of its members even in his own party. Although the Administration during the campaign observed a moratorium in its vendetta with the press, it has now begun a calculated drive to frighten the TV networks into more "balanced" coverage (see TELEVISION...
...Liberal ticket, and a bitter race was on. Ryan charged that Abzug is "not just a zero; she's a mi-nus." "Mickey Mouse," she said, "can do better." In return, Abzug claimed that her opponent had "no qualification for office," and was conducting a campaign of "vendetta and vindictiveness." The voters apparently agreed with Bella: they sent Abzug to Washington for a second term...
According to testimony given before a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1964, one of the Corsican godfathers is Marcel Francisci, 52, a flamboyant, onetime war hero (the Croix de Guerre) whose business interests include casinos in Britain, France and Lebanon. In 1968, caught in a gangland vendetta, Francisci barely escaped an ambush in a restaurant on the island of Corsica. Four months later, the men who tried to kill him were murdered in a Parisian restaurant by gunmen posing as cops. Francisci today is an elected district official on Corsica...
...rules. The disillusionment of many youths with Viet Nam, pollution and corruption has sexual side effects, say Simon and Gagnon. It reinforces the idea of the older generation's moral inferiority. In fact, the two sociologists assert, many young people begin sexual activity in part as a "personal vendetta" against their parents. Nor does the older generation have a very good record of marital stability. Since
...expulsion appeared to be the culmination of an inexplicable secret-police vendetta against him that has been going on for over a decade. In 1964, he was the victim of a trumped-up trial in Leningrad. He was accused of writing poetry-adjudged "gibberish" by the court-instead of engaging in "honest work." He was also attacked in the press for allegedly "nurturing a plan" to steal a plane and fly abroad. Sentenced to five years at hard labor in the Soviet far north, Brodsky became a cause celebre in Russia and the West. Released after 18 months...