Word: venom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pardo Llada. If there was one sure thing about Pardo Llada, Castro's favorite and most poisonous radio commentator, it was that he was Cuba's No. 1 opportunist. At the last possible moment, he switched from Batista's to Castro's side, and the venom he once, in Batista's pay, directed against Castro was now directed in Castro's pay against Batista. Last week he announced another switch in loyalties. He turned up at a Mexico City press conference, a defector from Castro, declaring that Communism had taken over Cuba...
...stress victory over, rather than co-existence with, the Communist menace," they cheered, whistled, stomped their feet, and raised a great commotion. When someone referred to stock villians like Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, or Linus Pauling, they booed and hissed with equal fervor. But the boos contained no venom. The crowd was simply cheering the heroes and hissing the bad guys and having a heck of a good time doing...
CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...
...want it." But one night at a party she heard a group of performers from a San Francisco nightspot sing folk songs until dawn, and promptly "fell in love with the music." She put together a sketchy repertory, sang at a few local clubs-"with passionate hate and venom...
...gets so sore at himself and the fans who are on him he almost says, 'All right, I'll show you. I'll strike out a third time.' And the worse things go, the more the fans get on Mickey, tak ing out their venom at the Yankees who had won so many years that people are fed up with them...