Word: venomous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Killinger of Lynchburg's First Presbyterian Church, rose in the pulpit in 1981 and asked his parishioners whether they believed Jesus would ever have appeared on the Old Time Gospel Hour. It was a sharp rebuke from the right side of the tracks. Falwell struck back with typical venom, mispronouncing Killinger's name as Dillinger. Falwell's aggressive tone may have given some of his supporters violent ideas: Killinger and his family began getting death threats...
...novel. "It's bound to be maudlinly autobiographical," you reassure yourself. In fact, you are convinced it will take place in the hallways of your old school, it does nothing of the sort. It proves to be breathtaking--and by the 30th page you have even forgotten your envious venom...
...best part of the job. He recalled a bank president who had never cracked a joke, a man rarely given to laughter. After the Kushner treatment, the executive did not exactly become a barrel of monkeys, but he was able to cut loose with the odd one-liner. One venom-tongued supervisor, accustomed to dressing down tardy employees, now has the habit of saying, "So glad you could make it for lunch." The message is still clear, but it is not so much a brick...
...would have thought Prof Mansfield had rid himself of venom against affirmative action after his article in The National Reviewlast spring, where he exhibited his ignorance about American society when posing the following query: "How can (Blacks) be made into first-class citizens? But is it not evident that this question should be rephrased as. How can they make themselves into first-class citizens?" Now any serious student of American racist patterns and Afro-American life could tell Mansfield that Blacks have never lacked the will--yes, that rugged individualistic will that New Right analysts cherish so much...
...rabid activist. On the other hand, Nick Lawrence displays great haughtiness as the infamous Marquis, swaggering about and scorning the other inmates as "lost revolutionaries." During, his soliloquies, however, he seems too coldly contemptuous of political movements, too condescending towards Marat, and he enunciates with such precision and venom that his words sound forced...