Word: verminous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infuriated the Communists. He wrote: "I doubt whether in any other country in the world, even Hitler's Germany, thought be less free, more bowed down, more fearful, more vassalized." The faithful, who had seen Gide treated like a hero, were now instructed to regard him as vermin. Soviet Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, who had led the cheering section for Gide, now denounced him as a "wicked...
...years ago, a Han Dynasty prince and philosopher, Han Fei-tze, became disillusioned with this Confucian assumption. Seeing his kingdom losing power and territory, Han expressed himself in works entitled Solitary Indignation, Five Vermin and 18 others. Said cynical Han: "Force can always secure obedience; an appeal to morality, very seldom." Han, too, has followers in contemporary China...
...three-day battle when the ice broke under them. After that, Yungnien boatmen chopped out a wide moat. The Communists sat tight at the artificial lake's boat approaches, and inside Yungnien the stores of grain ran out. Deficiency diseases appeared, and the city swarmed with germ-spreading vermin...
...Patients are beaten up and murdered by attendants. . . . [They] are starved. . . . [They live in] antiquated, unsanitary buildings [amid] filth, vermin and overcrowding. . . . Care of the mentally ill is a national disgrace...
...prisoners' bread rations with a brush. Six arsenic bottles (two of them empty) were found under the floor of the local bakery. First theory was that the poison was being used to exterminate cockroaches. But further investigation showed that the unknown poisoner was not after ordinary vermin. His aim, announced U.S. counterintelligence, was to kill the camp's inmates-some...