Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago that Steinmetz observed that electricity is expensive because it is not widely used, and at the same time that it is not widely used because it is expensive. Notwithstanding reductions in rates and increase of consumption since his day . . . his observation still holds true. There is a vicious circle that we must continue to break and wise public policy will help to break...
...This is the most cockeyed piece of tax legislation ever imposed in a modern country. And if I am elected, I shall recommend immediate repeal of this vicious method of taxation...
...vicious spout swung inland from the bay off Swansea, Wales, struck a hillside, gutted a row of houses, washed 8,000 tons of earth, rock, debris and human beings to the bottom of the slope. Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...
...Edgar Hoover, listened intently to Author Will Durant (The Story of Philosophy), meditated upon a pronouncement from Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business that 75% of Government expenditures "fall within the larger definition of boon-doggling." They endorsed better housing, prevention of traffic accidents and opposition to "vicious" Communistic propaganda. For next year's president Kiwanis International named Alfred Copeland Callen, head of the mining and metallurgical engineering department at the University of Illinois...
...foot on him and was trumpeting and stamping. He stamped and kicked at Ed and then dug his one tusk deep into Ed's body and jerked his head upward-ripping and slashing. He didn't lift Ed off the ground, but just gored him with a vicious ripping motion...