Word: vendettas
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...view of this, what alarmed newsmen were McCarthy's methods: he seemed even less interested in systematically investigating subversives on U.S. newspapers than in carrying on a personal vendetta against a persistent critic...
Presently, Lodge has reached the point where his record and opinions are a menace to the GOP's neanderthal leaders, but are not sufficiently distinguished, like Vandenberg's were, to shield him from an intra-party vendetta. If, however, Eisenhower (whose ideas on foreign policy are, after all, closer to Lodge's than to Taft's) wins the presidency, Lodge will presumably become his agent in the Senate. With the political strength of a president behind him, the Massachusetts Senator would undoubtedly vitiate, if not destroy, Taft's control over Republican foreign policy...
Questioned about the Illinois Governor's vote-getting capabilities in the South as compared to the appeal of the Tennessee Senator, Schlesinger said that the Southerners' dislike was a "personal vendetta directed at Truman and not personally transferred...
...ominous offscreen voice introduces the picture and most of its characters, lingers over a definition of "vendetta" until the dullest schoolboy in the balcony can understand what it means. Then the movie spells out its story just as laboriously. Colomba (Faith Domergue), a proud Corsican beauty, determines to avenge her father's murder by members of the villainous Barricini family. She makes her brother (George Dolenz) the instrument of her revenge and, incidentally, the object of her more-than-sisterly affections...
...star can be made by what seems to be the most extravagant star-making venture in Hollywood history, Faith's stardom should be assured. But Vendetta is unlikely to be the picture that turns the trick...