Word: venoms
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...particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe-taking, Eastland is the epitome of respectability-a devoted family man and a prosperous landowner for whom politics is a passion rather than a livelihood. And even in his most intemperate outbursts, Eastland never descends to the kind of semi-obscene, anti-Negro venom displayed by Mississippi's late Senator James Vardaman when he declared: "I am just as much opposed to Booker T. Washington as a voter as I am to the coconut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon who blacks my shoes every morning...
...tried to continue the revolt after the committee report criticizing the seniors. But his efforts failed, despite his assertion that "we must have some indulgence for Mr. Adams' humor. The mortifications and disappointments of his life have soured the old man's temper--and he must needs disgorge his venom...
Many a Jewish doctor, lawyer or teacher seeking refuge in Palestine from the venom of Hitler's Europe was forced to earn his living by manual labor. This humbling necessity for common survival led in the new nation of Israel to a basic belief that no man was better than another, and hence should be paid no more. In the Israeli economy, teachers, doctors, civil servants and other professionally trained men were all paid workmen's wages. Any attempt to raise the scale for professionals is promptly met by an equal demand on the part of organized labor...
...sure that there will come a moment when some of my critics will want to correct a shameful wrong," said McGinnis virtuously. "I have had to face an unusual share of basic operational problems . . . Nothing justified the unprincipled and unbridled venom from some quarters directed against...
...Year's Eve message to the Spanish people, Franco took up the theme. Unrest among Spanish students and workers and dissatisfaction among some intellectuals, said Franco, are due to the "venom of materialism" propagated by radio broadcasts from Communist countries and "seconded by misguided Spaniards at home." What obviously disturbed him were the shattering results of the university poll, though his Spanish listeners could not know this, since no word of the poll has yet appeared in Spain's unfree press...