Word: venomous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, McCarthy's efforts to unearth Communist rats (not "witches"), and bring the issue of Communist infiltration before the people, has caused this unequaled concentration of venom to be directed on him. His success is to be gauged by the violence of attacks made...
...Gyron is an axial-flow engine, intended for use in supersonic aircraft, while all De Havilland's previous jets (e.g., the Goblin, which powers the Vampire fighter, and the Ghost, which powers the Comet and the Venom fighter), have been centrifugal types.* De Havilland said that the engine, which has low gas consumption and a low ratio of weight to thrust, is being developed first for supersonic fighter planes, later could be built for transports. Said De Havilland: the Gyron is the first of "a new generation of really large turbine-jet power units. The company is confident that...
...experience with popular theatre taxes added venom to his lecture style. Bitterly sarcastic to everything he considers mediocre on the stage, he damns the famous and obscure with fine impartiality, saving complete admiration only for Shaw. But despite the vigorous showmanship of his lectures, Chapman is no hardy extrovert. Only a small group of undergraduates can claim more than a mild acquaintance with him. In fact, his tendency to stay apart has given one colleague the false impression that his favorite amusement in the exercise line is swimming. A friend on the team says it's a cinch that...
Nobody knows for sure who mislaid the virus. But the university's story has one odd twist: the tubes were found in a lab which had been used by Dr. Malcolm H. Soule, who committed suicide (TIME, Aug. 13, 1951) by injecting himself with snake venom...
...Haven newspaper: "No written words could have been better contrived to poison town and gown relations than the... Registrar's viciously biased report and editorial ... on the riot ... It is a tragic pity that the staggering community problem posed by City-University relations could only be met by venom and bombast... The present critical situation has been one that called for... understanding, perception, and maturity. These qualities were conspicuously lacking on both sides...